Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We need to let our members know that this is happening so that they can check out their own individual situation and we need to write to the regional council to find the basis for banding of agricultural housing here , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The North Wales Cricket Association insist on having Aaron Barnes 's credentials confirmed in writing so that they can rule on his amateur status . |
| 3 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 4 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |
| 5 | ‘ True psychologists do not recommend siblings competing directly because they could become jealous and envious , and might even come to hate each other , ’ says Polgar . |
| 6 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 7 | The Church knew what was going on and they could easily have stopped it . |
| 8 | " Jack " , in Dublin , had been to bars and meeting-places , had made inquiries , had met this man and then that , reporting back to Bert and Jasper that things were going on as they should . |
| 9 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 10 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | Thus , eventually , the Kurds were given the ‘ choice ’ of staying in the mountains to continue to die in droves — or taking their chances with Saddam and heading back where they 'd come from . |
| 12 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 13 | The bus pulled up and they jumped on it , going upstairs so they could smoke . |
| 14 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 15 | She folded her jumpers around sheets of tissue paper after ironing so that they would n't crease on the shelf . |
| 16 | Others have been less cautious , the League Against Cruel Sports stating openly that they will progress to these other two activities when they have stopped hunting and the Hunt Saboteurs ' Association having also already shown an interest . |
| 17 | When they arrived in Brides Haven Rachel Pritchard welcomed Leonora with a cup of hot , strong tea , but Bryn soon cut across his wife 's chatter , pointing out that they must set out at once if he was to make the return trip before dark . |
| 18 | This is the sort of thing my mob is supposed to be ironing out and they dare n't admit they 've even been involved — except by whispering to people like Sprague . |
| 19 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 20 | Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen . |
| 21 | There would be no more hinting now that they would like him to leave . |
| 22 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 23 | In spite of the technical run-through the day before , Madge Grimsilk 's front and back cloths kept sticking and not coming down when they should . |
| 24 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 25 | The administration has n't made up its mind yet , saying only that they will be two independent entities ; those that have been briefed say that they will not be the National Security Agency or the law enforcement agencies . |
| 26 | Although this plan had the endorsement of Serbian leaders including Slobodan Milosevic , the President of Serbia , the troop dispatch had been delayed because Milan Babic , leader of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Republic of Krajina " within Croatian territory [ see p. 38685 ] , rejected the idea of the deployment of UN forces in ethnically mixed areas of Croatia , conceding only that they should be stationed on the front line between Serbian and Croatian forces . |
| 27 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 28 | the er the bigger one the half A three , it erm they are meant really to be targeted for people coming through that they can hand information to . |
| 29 | They 're very good with each other 's babies too , you can come in and not know which baby belongs to who , or a girl 's got an exam coming up and they 'll all muck in and change the baby for her . |
| 30 | There 's a car coming out so they should change colour . |