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Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas .
2	Few among them could have known what the job entailed .
3	They must have heard her a block away .
4	They must have thought him a bit insensitive — running off like that , the day after …
5	But who you see at the very beginning they must have established what the roles were .
6	Benny knew that they must have got her the velvet dress with the lacy collar and the pumps to go with it .
7	The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton .
8	They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade .
9	‘ My God , they should have given me an Oscar .
10	they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago !
11	So all Oswaldston will read that , and they 'll read between the lines and they 'll start calling me the marriage-breaker , will they ?
12	then they 'll have to pay you a bit more money , yo you know , to come back like that and say well yeah I do n't
13	What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down .
14	‘ They might have given you a rough ride at first , but you survived — more than survived !
15	I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly .
16	Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ?
17	Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to .
18	No , they could have cut it a bit more could n't they ?
19	To think they could have saved themselves the worry .
20	And erm if they could have given us a proper explanation why they 'd gone back and prove us wrong them fair enough .
21	They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day .
22	So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern .
23	My analysis of the situation would be very favourable to them , but they 'd need to offer me a 50,000-acre country estate and the Chancellorship . ’
24	If she 'd said Carolyn had borrowed a book from Clare and wanted to return it , they 'd have given her the address .
25	There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep .
26	If they 'd have shown me a bit to , when we first went I would n't have ordered it .
27	They would prefer to call it the .
28	They would like to call it the ‘ Welsh Open ’ if that title has not been used before .
29	I 'm telling you all this , and perhaps you do n't have to erm pay for any of these treatments we do gift vouchers , so if you 've got anybody who wants to buy you a gift of any sort , you could always say well , I fancy erm an eyebrow trim , or I fancy a pedicure perhaps they would like to buy you a gift voucher and then you can come in and it could be a present for you .
30	It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary .