Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy . |
| 3 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 4 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 5 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 6 | Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed . |
| 7 | They realize they may have missed an event . |
| 8 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 9 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 10 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 11 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 12 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 13 | They may have got a number one , but it cost them ! |
| 14 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 16 | ‘ They must 'ave seen the rozzer . ’ |
| 17 | They must 've got the idea from that , called Dave Tanner and got him to set you up … |
| 18 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 19 | But they must have cost a lot |
| 20 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 21 | I said oh well they must have cut the film off there . |
| 22 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 23 | ‘ But they must have made a mistake — that ca n't possibly be right ! ’ |
| 24 | During their investigation they repeatedly told the family that they must have provoked the attack . |
| 25 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 26 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 27 | I 've got a feeling for the number of empty sites they must have hammered the rents or the rates or something . |
| 28 | No they must have had a cylinder there already . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 30 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |