Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped that they would n't wake Peter . |
| 2 | Derick Wilson , the Labour councillor who lobbied fellow members to reject the licencing restrictions , claims that they would badly damage Edinburgh 's tourism image . |
| 3 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 4 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 5 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 6 | Collor 's defence lawyers also confirmed that they would not call Farias ( who had been widely expected to turn on Collor , since Collor 's defence evidence was expected to centre around directing all the blame at him ) . |
| 7 | On 10 September 1981 ( the date of his acquittal ! ) , an action was brought by the company against Mr Fowler and the eight former employees alleging an unlawful conspiracy and breach of implied terms of contract that they would faithfully serve Faccenda Chicken Ltd and ‘ would not use confidential information and/or trade secrets gained by them and each of them whilst in the company 's employment to the disadvantage or detriment of the company , whether during the currency of such employment or after its cessation ’ . |
| 8 | It is possible that they may also affect IFN γ binding to other cells involved in the colonic mucosal immune response . |
| 9 | I made the mistake of telling two non-hill-walking friends that they could easily manage Creag Meagaidh . |
| 10 | An encounter with a French frigate delayed their final sailing so that they could not reach Sumatra in time . |
| 11 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 12 | What , however , about the second objection to the Baker — Hacker interpretation , that they can not answer Kripke 's sceptical questions about objectivity ? |
| 13 | In the meantime , a political representative of the city 's black population was asking , ‘ What if the people of South Central realize that they can not remove Daryl Gates ? ’ |
| 14 | But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert . |
| 15 | I said that they can hardly ask Lee on the box if big nose really fucked his wife . |
| 16 | I then take it on myself to swill off the blades and rollers so they wo n't put Pa off finishing the grass when he 's done with the Virgin in there . |
| 17 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 18 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 19 | Mention ‘ Shaw ’ to a young person now , and they might just remember Martin , who used to be in The Professionals . |
| 20 | She helped Jenna out and they could both hear Alain on the phone in another room . |
| 21 | Harold asked the question that I expected ; ‘ If they wo n't meet Barbara , who will they meet ? ’ |
| 22 | As er , she can go if they wo n't let Kirsty in , she can go one night , he can go another night . |
| 23 | I hear murmurs all around me of ‘ If they ca n't win Basildon . |
| 24 | Steve Coppell 's men have already sewn the seeds of recovery with a hat-trick of wins against Queens Park Rangers , Liverpool and Leeds — but they wo n't cause Fashanu even more sleepless nights . |
| 25 | Smith was omitted from the team , with Mark Sunley and Sean Gregan paired together in defence , but they could n't stop Preston winning 2–0 . |
| 26 | But they could not distract Molby , who calmly tucked away his kick . |
| 27 | They might muffle his body and cover his face as they would , but they could not hide Harry Talvace from Aelis . |
| 28 | Wolves huffed and puffed , but they could not blow Tracey 's house down again . |
| 29 | But they could not ignore West German and French fears of Anglo-Saxon concessions , nor the possibility that one of Khrushchev 's objectives was to foment divisions within the Western alliance . |
| 30 | But they could not save Elizabeth . |