Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 2 | And just last Two year ago I met one of the older kind and oh she was n't pleased where they used to do their put their camps . |
| 3 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 4 | Or they might decide they want to learn how to read , that they want information about birth control , or advice about getting rid of a caique ( local boss ) . |
| 5 | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day . |
| 6 | Do n't let me catch anybody else rushing about the corridor , or they 'll know what to expect . |
| 7 | or something or they 'll say you know is it any good they 'll say , Oh it 's really wicked . |
| 8 | ‘ But you 'd better go and check the car , or they 'll have it stripped . ’ |
| 9 | Either , either , either , either the parish council can say it in any form that they wish , or they can instruct me to say it . |
| 10 | The only drawback is the cost — a hefty £1950 in London , £1450 outside — although they 'll help you arrange a home birth on the NHS if you ca n't afford their own service . |
| 11 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |
| 12 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 13 | There would be no more hinting now that they would like him to leave . |
| 14 | If theorists attempted this task it is likely that they would find themselves following in the footsteps of the more deterministic elements of Durkheim 's sociology , which have not the aspects they have favoured so far ( Deutscher , 1984 ; Farr , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | He suspected that they might think he had used the incident of the bad teeth and the convenience of a farming father to bolt from that tough and dirty job . |
| 16 | Donleavy had thought seriously about the chance encounter with Hurley , and , on balance , had decided that they might turn it to account , although … |
| 17 | Perhaps , I said , there is another copy that they might let us photograph . |
| 18 | that they 'll allow us to claim . |
| 19 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 20 | ‘ If you go round saying that they 'll have you locked up in a padded cell . ’ |
| 21 | Now the opportunity had once again been given to them , she felt that they must do nothing to jeopardise the future . |
| 22 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 23 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 24 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
| 25 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 26 | And of course we keep their rooms for them as long as there 's any chance at all — it 's tremendously important that they should feel they 've a home to go back to . ’ |
| 27 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 28 | I was once in a ward with nine other people for a year and I know how , except when passed away , I know how that can really get on one another 's nerves and erm the individual needs that they will have I know will be erm so difficult if there are too many living in very closeness . |
| 29 | Hence the need for non-logical factors to influence the subject classes so that they will allow themselves to neglect their own utility and pursue what is in the interest of the governing elite and therefore of the community as a whole . |
| 30 | It 's unlikely that they will allow you to use an arch to carry the load : the abutments are n't likely to be strong enough to resist the thrust . |