Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 2 | The lack of a rear input is a serious drawback , but the company tell me that considerations of space ( where they 'd put this socket , heaven knows ) and cost were uppermost in the decision not to include it . |
| 3 | She knew only too well where they 'd find some of it . |
| 4 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 5 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 6 | They looked forward to starting work where they could do more of the things which they valued and join the adult community of men . |
| 7 | They want to have an interesting or exciting time , a time that would not be boring , where they could create some action … |
| 8 | They did n't play loud ; they played where they could hear each other in the studio , and that natural leakage — as I learned later when I got into engineering — actually helped to blend the tonal quality . ’ |
| 9 | Passengers were brought to Wrexford town where they could spend several hours sightseeing or take part in an optional trip from Wexford to Rosslare and back . |
| 10 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 11 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 12 | But another place that the two treatments are very helpful , is in transporting fish where they will minimise any chemical stress . |
| 13 | Globe-trotting Ray and Mark Hanna are due to attend the November airshow at Auckland , New Zealand , where they will fly some NZ-based warbirds . |
| 14 | Those readers who are now sufficiently convinced that the F-Plan is the first realistically helpful medical advance in slimming , as indeed it is , may if they wish turn to page 91 of this book , where they will find all the rules for following the plan , followed by recipes , menus and charts . |
| 15 | In ideal circumstances a son or daughter may be able to provide a granny flat or at least a bedsitting-room which the older person can call their own and where they can have some personal furniture and possessions as well as privacy . |
| 16 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 18 | I t might be nothing ; they might be police … or they might represent those who are chasing you , so say nothing as we go past . " |
| 19 | If my son and my daughter have n't taken up the same interest in art that I have , I see no reason that they should have , and I see no reason to tell them they ought to study this or they ought to do that . |
| 20 | OUR SHIPMENT MUST BE RETURNED OR THEY WILL DIE BOTH . |
| 21 | Many humans have taken ‘ objects ’ , that is , in this case , people , of the same sex , and although they may have some experience of heterosexual intercourse , they may prefer and may frequently perform homosexual acts . |
| 22 | The task was " forced " in that the respondents were not allowed to answer " impossible to say " to the question about the speaker 's race , but had to opt for one of the three possibilities , although they could give this the lowest confidence rating . |
| 23 | They are less than enthusiastic about flake or other dried foods , and although they will take these to keep body and soul together , you are unlikely to achieve breeding success on such a diet . |
| 24 | Although they can bring some benefits to car-congested towns they almost always carry the penalty of significant environmental damage to the countryside and to the setting of towns . |
| 25 | Maclean 's mother Peggy , his estranged second wife , also Peggy , and his daughter Temora , would no more have volunteered for an Oprah Winfrey panel than they would give this man a bottle of cask-strength whisky for his birthday . |
| 26 | Billington , however , was a master of his trade and fixed the arms with ropes so that they would absorb some of the shock . |
| 27 | Erm because although they accept that there are certain conditions within the , within the tower block which affect the block as a whole , they would say that they would affect each individual flat to a greater or lesser degree and that they would have to be taken on individual merit . |
| 28 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 29 | The market mechanism fails to provide a means whereby workers can signal to firms that they would demand more goods and services if only they could get jobs and so have more money to spend . |
| 30 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |