Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 2 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 3 | Try out the PA system on site ; do n't take the management 's word that they 'll do it for you . |
| 4 | And I had to say that they 'll do it at Brownies . |
| 5 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |
| 6 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 7 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 8 | They have done that before , and the hope must be that they will do it again . |
| 9 | In both cases there is a basic assumption of health — that they can do it . |
| 10 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 11 | From Hungary , Russia and Japan come rumours that they can do it too . |
| 12 | I have known couples choose to have no children and be very happy with their choice ; but the moment they have changed their minds , only to discover finally that one or other of them is infertile , life instantly fills with despair coupled with a single-minded commitment to prove that they can do it . |
| 13 | Er we 're going to er get it drafted up and er we have some money in the , we have some money in our budget , for a gift , and it seems to me appropriate erm that the gift that we might make to Cheskevod is the s trading charter which we can get for the money that we 've budgeted er written by a calligrapher who I 've already contacted , who said that they can do it erm well , for that sort of price , in both English and Czech . |
| 14 | whereas people they reckon that they can do it , they can do the whole lot for eighteen hundred |
| 15 | the people think that they can do it undisturbed . |
| 16 | You can tell them to fire the building and they 'll do it and watch themselves burn . |
| 17 | following the work 's experience there is a half term there , so it can either come before that or after it and I 'll do a unit and it might be on safety or , if I ca n't erm first aid I might get safety in and they 'll do it like that and we 'll fill in some units . |
| 18 | If it 's something silly , that they have n't been trained for , but most jobs you can delegate and they 'll do it just as well as you . |
| 19 | They had done this before and they would do it again . |
| 20 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |
| 21 | So obviously managers , who 've given some members of their staff trunk access 3 , which is very low , which is Oxford , can say to their staff , ‘ Right , phone New York , phone Florence , phone this , phone that , and get me a list of all these things ’ , and they can do it , because the system does n't look for their code , does n't look for their limiting trunks , erm trunk access code 40 , everybody can use system abbreviated numbers , hash 6 . |
| 22 | If they did so — and they could do it easily — we should be willing to co-operate with them . |
| 23 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 24 | Er and other er women would you know you 'd take it to them an and they 'd do it in , in their own homes . |
| 25 | But sometimes the door was open and they 'd do it all out the front doors like this a and fresh , fresh people trying to get in . |
| 26 | If they 'll do it , then we 're in business . ’ |
| 27 | Nicholas said , ‘ I did n't know if they would do it . ’ |
| 28 | If they would do it or something ? |
| 29 | If they could do it — why should n't she ? |
| 30 | ( We 'd learned in science about Galvin and his electrically operated frogs ' legs ; if they could do it , why not relics ? ) |