Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jonathan Malcolm and his girlfriend met they could have little idea of the trouble which lay in store . |
| 2 | A statement from the club confirmed they would be staying in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | In fact , our research showed they would be quite surprising to customers and non-customers alike . |
| 4 | Maybe somebody in the pentagon figured they could find out how ill he was just by listening to it . |
| 5 | Council spokesman Doug Allan said labels on any household chemical warned they must not be used in association with other products . |
| 6 | Today , the department said they could n't answer that until they review the case . |
| 7 | One-third of five- and six-year-olds in one study said they would prefer to be without their sibling altogether — hardly a vote of confidence in sibship . |
| 8 | A potentially crippling problem arose last week when hundreds of policemen from the 17,000-strong security force said they would not take part unless they were guaranteed proper living conditions and pay rises . |
| 9 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 10 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 11 | The police claimed the records were n't relevant to the case , but the judge ruled they should be disclosed . |
| 12 | But her husband applied to the courts to have the children returned and in April this year a High Court judge ruled they should be sent back to him in South Dakota . |
| 13 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 14 | The men who were acquitted , Danial Winter , who 's 19 , and Wisdom Smith , who 's also 19 , had nothing to say after the judge directed they should be found not guilty . |
| 15 | Management claimed they could , but the women consistently produced less than the required targets . |
| 16 | While Tayside Region and Perth and Kinross District Council indicated they could afford only part of the survey , estimated at £80,000-£100,000 , the Scottish Office reply was unequivocal . |
| 17 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 18 | At first , Topaz thought they must have quarrelled but , as the stillness was never broken , she concluded it was yet another odd custom practised by the strange women who surrounded her . |
| 19 | Er , for example , er whilst people w were getting what er the unemployment act said they should have , er this pressure was er I 'm quite sure , able to get some additional er benefits even if it was er only in kind , er from the from the local authorities . |
| 20 | Two years ago they were banned from playing at the city 's leisure centre because the council said they would ’ offend the morals ’ of local women . |
| 21 | A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted . |
| 22 | Members of the medical faculty said they would fax press reports of the Peking democracy movement to as many recipients as they could find in China , to overcome censorship . |
| 23 | He was not able to deduce what these purposes might be , but the persistence of a third sector suggested they must exist . |
| 24 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 25 | But as a dutiful wife , she managed to put a good face on it , particularly after her husband promised they would return again in the spring . |
| 26 | For some time afterwards whenever a crisis occurred they would ask each other , ‘ What would Père Obein say ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ People can dip in and out , looking at objects which represent the best that artists of a certain period believed they could do woven in with some everyday things . |
| 28 | Though inspectors have no enforcement powers , Wing believed they should be free to point out difficult areas of practice . |
| 29 | April and Pet declared they 'd have a cup . |
| 30 | Clough 's team decided they 'd rather die than swallow such medicine . |