Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famine of 1919–21 forced industrial workers back to the countryside , where they proceeded to apply their skills , encouraged by the local peasantry , thwarted by the lack of industrial consumer goods from the towns . |
| 2 | According to economic theory , with some reservations that will be examined shortly , companies contribute to the maximisation of society 's total wealth where they seek to maximise their own profits . |
| 3 | She saw shades of grey where they seemed to see none — complications , contradictions . |
| 4 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 5 | Briefly summarised , our scheme is likely to be attractive to those researchers who have reached a stage in their careers , either young post docs or those of more mature years , where they want to try something new or unconventional . |
| 6 | They often agree to intercourse because they feel they must or they think they 've got to a certain age where they have to do it . |
| 7 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 8 | There can be no presumption that these collectivities correspond to the classes of Marxist theory ( however conceived ) , and where they fail to correspond it will not do to reject them as unimportant . |
| 9 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 10 | Or they have to do what we will never do and that is take the quality out of it . |
| 11 | We 've had a few people coming on and saying they want it to stay there or they want to leave it there but it 's the trees that 's really annoying people . |
| 12 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 13 | Although they want to move they say the house is now virtually unsaleable . |
| 14 | Although they want to move they say the house is now virtually unsaleable . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd heard of Lina 's return , of course , although they tried to keep it quiet . |
| 16 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 17 | We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence . |
| 18 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |
| 19 | The Bolsheviks had let it be known that they wished to end their war with Germany , and after The Revolution in October 1917 , in Russia , the Bolsheviks were able to seize power and , in December 1917 , they signed an alliance with Germany . |
| 20 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 21 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 22 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 23 | Andrewes loved ceremonial and used incense in his private chapel , which , said Isaacson , was ‘ so decently and reverently adorned that some were so taken with it , that they desired to end their days in the Bishop of Ely 's chapel ’ . |
| 24 | At home , the cows were managed by the women , who hand-milked them and ensured that they continued to yield plenty of good quality milk and were selected for being docile and good-tempered . |
| 25 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 26 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 27 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 28 | At a simple and obvious level , he argued fairly recently ( 1973 : 491 ) that they served to satisfy our innate desire for regularity and symmetry , and also permitted effects of relief and surprise through contrast . |
| 29 | And they have proved that they intend to let nothing stand in the way of a World Cup triumph when they stage the finals next summer . |
| 30 | Erm , I note that for ninety-five , ninety-six , that they intend to give us two per cent rise . |