Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 2 | Later on , whenever our friends on a visit happened to meet him they would ask : ‘ Is he really a vicar ? ’ |
| 3 | He told me that if the police started questioning me they 'd keep on and on until I said something I should n't . |
| 4 | They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them . |
| 5 | If anybody had seen me they must have thought the SAS was on exercise in the area . |
| 6 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 7 | It was Vico , in his New Science ( 1725–44 ) , who gave at once a new confidence and a particular direction to social thought , in his argument that ‘ the world of civil society has certainly been made by men ’ and that this ‘ since men had made it they could hope to know ’ . |
| 8 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 9 | If they wished to bury them they would have to summon Tig . |
| 10 | Last night , Mr Atkinson said doctors had warned him they might need to operate . |