Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] they [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have saved the Carrion attack until now ( see Dead Wings in the previous section ) , there is a chance that the adventurers will slip and fall if they engage in any combat . |
| 2 | They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies . |
| 3 | It would appear that they formed in order to capitalise on certain perceived economic benefits . |
| 4 | He says I always comes because it 's a celebration of botany and of what people can do if they believe in plants and reach into that wonderful genetic stock of plants and create all these things — that 's why I come . |
| 5 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |
| 6 | ‘ What do phones do when they fall in love ? |
| 7 | From 9.30 to 5.30pm , 6 days a week , we smother the children with suncream , take them for walks , supervise those that can swim as they play in the water , feed them and entertain them with games . |
| 8 | It 's wrong the Blacks ca n't do as they please in South Africa , it 's as much their country as the Whites . |
| 9 | The mistake that the social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer made , and that popular opinion still makes about evolution , is the kind of mistake that aliens might make if they landed in a Safeway supermarket car park . |
| 10 | It does not follow that they understand in any sense that the bottom bricks of a tower support the top ones — although this is something which a leaping animal living in a jungle or an untidy house may have to learn . |
| 11 | But just because adults have the right to choose , it does not follow that they have in fact exercised that right . |
| 12 | He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 13 | Slowed down to the frequencies that suit our ears you can hear that they differ in volume , length , pitch and frequency and include squeals and yelps , grunts and trills . |
| 14 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 15 | After they realised that the warriors did not care if they stayed in the saddle or not , Yuan , Alexei and the others got down as well . |
| 16 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 17 | So he was gon na ask if they got in late because they could have had time to get it repaired . |
| 18 | Now , after 16 hours of play and endless training sessions , the final 80 minutes tomorrow will determine whether they remain in Division I of the McEwan 's National League . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , ’ he would say as they sat in one of those cafes with the plate glass windows looking out on to the beach and the sea , ‘ there 's a rocker over there . |
| 20 | I think the interest that people have in those areas show that there is that hunger for a deep personal kind of faith , which they do n't usually find when they worship in the churches . |