Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may even point to Nazmu Virani . |
| 2 | They may also appeal to Whitehall for more money . |
| 3 | After years traipsing around the world they 'll now practise in Milton Keynes for their return to international competition . |
| 4 | If they still wanted to expand their original business there are other ways of doing so : there might be scope for a small hotel at L'Auberge , for instance , or for outside catering around Chelmslow , or they might even capitalize on George 's knowledge of French wines by setting up an off-licence and specialist wine importation business . |
| 5 | ‘ They could just walk around Oxford , could n't they , sir ? |
| 6 | Mr Tudball told a meeting of the exchange 's ship-broking members they could either remain at Lloyd 's of London or move to the old Billingsgate fish market in the meantime . |
| 7 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 8 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 9 | He 'd go the driving horses , they 'd probably go to Wickham market Monday do you see , the sale on the Monday they 'd go to Ipswich on the Tuesday er Wednesday they 'd go to Bury er and Ailsworth |
| 10 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 11 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 12 | ‘ The French hate London , but they would also object to Bonn , Rome , Brussels … you name it . |
| 13 | We have a relatively high proportion of our student body that comes from overseas , and a year or so ago when the announcement was made that the fees of overseas students were going up , there was a cry that we would n't get any any more , they would all go to America or Russia or wherever . |
| 14 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 15 | And , they claim , they would never refer to Buckingham Palace as ‘ the House ’ . |
| 16 | Should England come second they would then go to Genoa to play the runners-up from Group B , who are more likely to be Argentina or the Soviet Union than Romania or Cameroun , although this does look the toughest , tightest group of all . |
| 17 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 18 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 19 | People tend to think they can just draw like Picasso without having any basic learning of drawing . |
| 20 | People tend to think they can just draw like Picasso without having any basic learning of drawing . |
| 21 | The doctors retainer scheme sponsored by the Department of Health , which seeks to help doctors stay in touch with medicine so that they can later return to NHS employment , applies only to doctors under 55 . |
| 22 | However , Dr Adams manipulates the remaining children , as he knows that they can telepathically communicate with Tommy , Michael and Jenny , to get the three of them back . |