Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they properly understand what is required ? |
| 2 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 3 | And when children over-regularize their systems , how can they eventually get rid of the over-regularizations ? |
| 4 | Do they effectively manage your empire with detailed rules on expenditure ? |
| 5 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 6 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 7 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 8 | Once you 've recommended someone do they only send me , I do n't have to order it do I ? |
| 9 | Nor , if Cnut and his advisers sought models for his kingship , need they only have looked to the English past : there was also the European present . |
| 10 | That , that well helps the er poor people , cos a lot of the poor people do n't near enough pay tax now because if they do they only have to pay twenty P |
| 11 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 12 | ‘ Did they only save her because she was good ? ’ asked the bigger girl . |
| 13 | This article also sets out an opportunity for management and labour to conclude contractual relations including agreements at Community level , should they so desire . |
| 14 | THE LAW COMMISSION 's report on computer hacking is to be published on Tuesday , two months earlier than planned and in time to allow ministers to put proposals for legislation into the Queen 's Speech , should they so wish , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 15 | In that case should they perhaps think of variations in human culture as expressions of permutations in the working of the human mind ? |
| 16 | I believe bus drivers already have radio communication ; could they perhaps use it to report the illegally parked vehicle and summon a towaway unit ? |
| 17 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 18 | Politics apart , Mosley and Joyce had little enough in common , nor did they greatly like one another personally . |
| 19 | Yet the fact was , they had not benefited by the death , nor would they necessarily do so . |
| 20 | And remember that the most characteristic meals are not necessarily found behind the most imposing facades , nor do they necessarily carry the highest price tags . |
| 21 | The tunes in English are not necessarily the same in form as those of other languages , nor do they necessarily produce the same effect . |
| 22 | Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it . |
| 23 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 24 | Do they necessarily have a meaning as well as reference ; and if so , to what extent , if any , is their meaning.content relevant to their designatory function ? |
| 25 | ‘ From a practical point of view , they are still dependent on their company for career progression and can not have the independence an external auditor would have nor would they necessarily have the technical expertise if they conducted a statutory audit only once a year . ’ |
| 26 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 27 | We 've you 've planned all this well they better let |
| 28 | But erm they 've told them that they better keep to the peace agreement . |
| 29 | They better mind their overheads |
| 30 | They better get the spelling right before the hordes arrive in Wester Ross . |