Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 2 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 3 | These types of modules do not require an associated filename as this will be specified by the package which will eventually reference them . |
| 4 | We can only presume they mean too BUSY |
| 5 | The Attlee governments were faced with a complexity of economic and political problems which should perhaps spare them , above all modern British governments , the condescension of posterity . |
| 6 | I wo n't necessarily answer them , but you know , I want to feel , you know , in these days of product communication that you , you have the er , the liberty to ask them . |
| 7 | The consequences of ignoring their plight will not only weaken them , but it will strengthen employers as they take the opportunity to export jobs to wherever labour is cheapest and protection weakest . |
| 8 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
| 9 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |
| 10 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |
| 11 | She enjoys trying out new ways of doing things , though she does n't necessarily devise them herself . |
| 12 | Never evade their letters or telephone calls , it will only make them less amenable to your predicament . |
| 13 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 15 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She was so hell-bent on them that when I told her I could n't get them anywhere she said ‘ Well , we 'd better make them . ’ |
| 17 | Well you better price them accordingly . |
| 18 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 19 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 20 | I reasoned like you , my lord , that they 'd rid themselves of the load , it would only slow them down . |
| 21 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 22 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 23 | You can only affect them peripherally . |
| 24 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 25 | She does n't much want them actually to touch her . |
| 26 | The chimpanzees can only catch them regularly by working in teams . |
| 27 | If you do not so trust them , then correspondingly elaborate testing procedures are required to monitor their impact and effectiveness . |
| 28 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 29 | — How could senior students better assist them ? |
| 30 | Many leisure activities would hardly figure because we can only value them as ways of relaxing from engagement in what really matters . |