Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 2 | If they wish they can stick to the bare bones of the task , as an intellectual exercise , but if they feel secure they may inject ‘ feeling ’ ideas . |
| 3 | If they know they can get special deals . |
| 4 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |
| 5 | but if they get the upper hand , and if they think they can start er dictating , then they will , alright ? |
| 6 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 7 | " If they think they can discover the lost vein , or by driving a new level find a fresh one , they will do one or the other for their own advantage " . |
| 8 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 9 | Ask the children if they think they can walk through a postcard . |
| 10 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 11 | The point is you do n't do these children any service by letting them getting away with it , cos they think they can get away with it . |
| 12 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 13 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 14 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 15 | The er work which has preceded at er British Aerospace in the the cockpit , to bring together all the information , displays and controls erm has been tested on er a team of eighteen pilots from , drawn from the four nations , to see whether they believe they can cope with that sort of pilot work load in in simulated operations and they 're content that this kind of cockpit is ideally suited for the task and they can cope . |
| 16 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 17 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | But he 's like , when they think they can get any little thing they can think of to wind each other up . |
| 19 | but I I acknowledge it as they come they can fire at me every sentence and I |
| 20 | As they propagate they can change — mutate . |