Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] they [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 2 | Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’ |
| 3 | Clearly corporations exercise substantial discretionary controls over the timing and fullness of their responses to consumer demands , including the possibility that for a decade or more they may ignore them ’ . |
| 4 | Someone comes up to you and you only have to say you 're not interested in drugs ; sooner or later they 'll leave you alone because they 're too busy trying to find a £5 deal to bang up with in the evening . |
| 5 | ‘ Anybody with any information , no matter how silly they think it is , has to come forward as we must get these people or else they will do it again . |
| 6 | Should any fellow be passing by , he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave . |
| 7 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 8 | What will basically happen is we would organize the clearance of footpaths within Southwell boundary , and so they would give us an amount of money each year and then we would er take on , we would nominate which footpaths are to be cleared , we have got far more ideas than they have in Nottingham need attention . |
| 9 | And he had visitors and so they could hear me singing . |
| 10 | When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ . |
| 11 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 12 | Each of the two passages raises rather different problems , and together they will enable us to connect the issues of counterfactual analysis and voluntarism which have so far been treated separately . |
| 13 | Show them that I 'm willing to come off it and hopefully they 'll bail me out . |
| 14 | I do n't know how we shall get them out , because they are exhausted and probably they will find it difficult to walk . |
| 15 | There were customers in the shop and even they could hear it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And then they 'll eat you , ’ said Caspar , and Fenella stared at him in horror . |
| 17 | Not unless you have to an amniocentesis and then they 'll tell you if you want ? |
| 18 | Wait till Saturday morning and then they 'll tell you then . |
| 19 | cost them bloody loads and then they 'll turn it into an absolute cack heap like it was before . |
| 20 | They do it for to keep him going and then they 'll say he says you know I 'm used to getting up at half four and going so many miles every morning for a big jog . |
| 21 | And then they 'll kill her . |
| 22 | And erm erm the tailors would come when they wanted to do any pressing of seams , or anything , and they would take the goose iron , and put it in on of the , what we call press cloths , that we pressed the And then they would douse it in the bucket of water , to get it the right heat , to start , so a cloud of steam went up . |
| 23 | I think , well we 'll hang on to it and then they can send us a reminder ca n't they ? |
| 24 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 25 | Like to know though , in case it is anything to do with Nigel and then they can get it sorted out . |
| 26 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 27 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 28 | But Customs and Excise still call this industrial meths unless it 's pure etha , completely pure ethanol in other words , no water in it and then they can call it absolute alcohol but they do n't specify which alcohol it is look ! |
| 29 | I hope Edgar and I will have several sons , and then they will inherit it . ’ |
| 30 | And then they 'd throw you to whatever man happened to be passing for the money you 'd earn for them . ’ |