Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [verb] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN AMAZING number of British women reckon they might dab a spot of Jacques Delors behind their ears . |
| 2 | ( ’ Canny ’ is echoed in the findings of a Gallup poll carried out for Shell last autumn which revealed that 60 per cent of Scottish motorists said they would buy a diesel car , compared to the national average of 49 per cent ) . |
| 3 | One-and-a-half hours was typical , though a number of fast workers reckoned they could buckle down and get a baby seat fixed in one hour flat . |
| 4 | The model tells us that 0.238 of poor respondents say they would be prepared to break the law ( the baseline ) . |
| 5 | It seems that some designers of upright cookers think they can get away with dowdy styling and primitive features . |