Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 2 | What is more , such actions as imposing regulation , though they may tend to acquire a momentum of their own , are nevertheless hardly irreversible . |
| 3 | Or they may fail to evoke a response at all . |
| 4 | We recognise that local authorities are under a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and that they may wish to stock a range of material about homosexuality , dealing with homosexual themes or written by homosexual authors . |
| 5 | No objection had been raised at the time , he said , and ‘ it is absurd that they should start to quibble a week later and try to reopen the issue ’ . |
| 6 | The world has changed since the long , low silver engineering prototype was unveiled at the 1988 British Motor Show and Jaguar 's then chief executive , Sir John Egan , decided that they should try to find a way to build it , as the ultimate supercar to outdo Ferrari and Porsche . |
| 7 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 8 | They they 'll have to take a share |
| 9 | But today they 'll have to make a choice because I 'm on my own . |
| 10 | He says they 'll have to find a lot of money up front before they even pay for the tags . |
| 11 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 12 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 13 | Some men from Muftah were descended from Sidi Hasan , the saint whose tomb is at the centre of the cemetery in Ajdabiya , and they might intervene to bring a quarrel to an end . |
| 14 | It always ferments the idea in criminals minds that they might like to have a go at something like that themselves . |
| 15 | They might like to make a family of their own with fewer members , and a simple house in which they can live . |
| 16 | It seems they might like to get a lot of things . |
| 17 | And , again , they might call to mind a passage from Ritschl 's eulogistic reference that had made Nietzsche 's earlier appointment possible : " His studies so far have been weighted towards the history of Greek literature … with special emphasis , it seems to me , on the history of Greek philosophy . |
| 18 | And because we were sitting in a bar in central Africa , and there was nowhere else they could go to buy a drink , they had no choice but to sit and listen . |
| 19 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 20 | If they could afford to take a holiday . |
| 21 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 22 | ‘ He said it was ten to one the Huns would fly over our field , since the two-seater was on reconnaissance and they 'd want to take a picture or something . ’ |
| 23 | How to set up : Ask friends , family or neighbours in the same situation as you if they 'd like to do a babysitting swap , and take it from there . |
| 24 | who have , well in fact , I must ask you this would you , would you like to have a gun ? , button one for yes , button two for no , I 'll tell you my own view on this after you 've voted and nine of you say yes you would , what , what , would any body liked to say why they 'd like to have a gun ? , yes |
| 25 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 26 | You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose . |
| 27 | But if they had a doctor you see , they 'd have to pay a pound . |
| 28 | Lashley , for his part , showed that surgical damage to parts of the brains of rats could alter the types of movements they would make to negotiate a maze without disrupting their ability to reach the goal . |
| 29 | The 12th NST round opened on Sept. 28 , 1989 , and ended on Dec. 8 , when Burt and Yuri Nazarkin ( who replaced Alexei Obukhov as the Soviet delegation leader in November 1988 ) held an unprecedented joint press conference at which they reaffirmed the undertaking given at the Malta summit meeting on Dec. 2-3 between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union ( see p. 37111 ) that they would aim to conclude a START treaty by the time of the scheduled Washington summit of June 1990 . |
| 30 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |