Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrol leader Captain David Hall said : ‘ We 're letting them know they can get food without instability . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The one thing you have got to give the fans is hope , and we 've got the staff at Aresenal to get them believing we can win things . ’ |
| 3 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 4 | Did they think I would loosen Ralemberg 's tongue or stir his memory ? |
| 5 | While I was on bail and Stephen was still with foster parents , they promised I could have Stephen for Christmas . |
| 6 | ‘ They say they 'll kill Sam . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The date they say they 'll kill Sam , ’ explained Charlotte , ‘ unless the document is delivered to them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ — and sometimes they say they will contain monsters with wavy tentacles and big teeth . ’ |
| 9 | Unless a deal is done which reduces subsidies and makes agricultural trade subject to normal GATT rules , they say they will block progress on freeing trade in services and rewriting international rules governing intellectual property . |
| 10 | Nor do they intend to underwrite other banks ' loans if the firm goes under ; they say they will take part in rescues , but not as guarantors . |
| 11 | They say you can twist statistics to back up any viewpoint , but you can not argue with that record . |
| 12 | They say it would make journeys too uncomfortable for passengers and slow their journey times , making services uneconomical . |
| 13 | They say it could cause difficulties , but are waiting to see whether the idea will come to fruition . |
| 14 | They hope it 'll reveal family resemblances . |
| 15 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 16 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 17 | Their role is invariably calcium uptake into the cell , that is the prevail when they open they will admit calcium into the cytosol , and this plays a crucial role during signal transduction processes , where elevation of cytosolic free calcium mediates in stimulus response coupling . |
| 18 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |
| 19 | One of the reasons why they 're having such a hard time with trying to privatise the Health Service is because the British public actually feel they own it , they feel a part of it , they feel it 's theirs , they know where the hospitals are , they know they can get treatment and they do n't abuse it . |
| 20 | They assume you will get help and advice from me . |
| 21 | Can I deal with your main point , er and in 's very important , er , to understand this , er , the vast majority of the parliamentary party supports strongly what we 're doing , because they believe it will improve passenger services , it will deal with getting freight on , more freight on to rail , now they they backed it throughout the party conference backed it almost unanimously |
| 22 | ENGLAND have turned down invitations to play in two one-day tournaments in November , because they feel it will hamper preparations for the winter tour to the West Indies . |
| 23 | It 's on do n't , they reckon they can make Cheshire anywhere now ca n't they ? |
| 24 | They claim it can relieve migraine and sinusitis and not so surprising , remove ear wax . |
| 25 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 26 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 27 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 28 | They thought it would draw people in from a wider |
| 29 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 30 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |