Example sentences of "[vb past] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume he believed they would never hear of the second marriage . |
| 2 | He was extremely rude to a lot of people , some of whom vowed they would never speak to him again . |
| 3 | And all the old crowd returned They 'd often come past the shop to see when it was going to open up again . |
| 4 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 5 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 6 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 7 | During the late 1980s and early 1990s , investors thought they could successfully invest in ‘ growth ’ shares that were at once exciting and defensive — among them , the giant consumer-product and health-care companies whose pricing power was meant to guard their earnings from the cyclical downturns that the stockmarket was bound to suffer . |
| 8 | Swapo thought they could still depend on the Damara vote . |
| 9 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 10 | The two companies said they will also work on a long-term systems management project . |
| 11 | The Police have so far adopted a watching waiting game … vastly outnumbered … they hoped they would gradually leave of their own accord … earlier this month … |
| 12 | The finding in Sir David Calcutt 's report on privacy and the press that the Press Complaints Commission 's lay members were dominated by the industry was baseless , Lord McGregor said , as their standing in the worlds in which their reputations had been made ensured they would never kowtow to proprietors or editors . |