Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 2 | They only had to be with you . |
| 3 | Some people believe that they only need to be turned once more , while others say that they need scrapping . |
| 4 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 5 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 6 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 7 | They just tend to be more intense in stepfamilies . ’ |
| 8 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 9 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 10 | They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed . |
| 11 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 12 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 13 | Although they live together and have children they do n't seem to be a couple , they just seem to be two people who do their own thing . |
| 14 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 15 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 16 | ‘ They just wanted to be seen as loyal citizens . ’ |
| 17 | But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . |
| 18 | They just refused to be flushed . ’ |
| 19 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 20 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 21 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 22 | They just happen to be transmitted differently . ’ |
| 23 | If teachers dislike the pseudo-democracy of being consulted after decisions have been taken , if they are irritated by being consulted over matters of little consequence and if they are satisfied that senior staff have the right to make decisions without staff consultation , they nevertheless expect to be consulted about major issues . |
| 24 | They were all written in nineteen thirty-nine or nineteen forty , and though they all concerned Walter Machin and his writing , or the industrial environment in which he lived and had grown up , they nevertheless contrived to be oddly impersonal and unrevealing . |
| 25 | As with Gabby , we had n't known them long — almost unbelievably less than two years , but they already seemed to be old friends . |
| 26 | Well there 's a few children around but erm they generally tend to be the older ones . |
| 27 | They thus tend to be solely related to a company and its products , and remain unpublished as their content is only of interest to their direct users and competitors . |
| 28 | They thus tend to be re-learnt for each occasion with people using slight variations and interpretations . |
| 29 | John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood continued thankfully on their own merry way and , though both regularly rummage through the past , they somehow managed to be forward-looking and new . |
| 30 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |