Example sentences of "i [vb past] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't realise if I agreed they would take off the old mouthpiece and put on a new one . |
| 2 | Erm if I tried they would have caught me so I just stand still and do n't scream or cry because I 'll get some more . |
| 3 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |
| 4 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 5 | I imagined they must have been bold generals like Arsenio and Osvaldo , pathfinders like X. Ray , stalwarts like the Corporal , boys as eager and facile as my woodchucks . |
| 6 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 7 | I knew they would arrive sooner or later . |
| 8 | I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back . |
| 9 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 10 | Knowing both of them , I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better . |
| 11 | Mostly I hate chimneys , but I knew they 'd rest my finger tendons and Sue Grimley needed a partner from Milenecka . |
| 12 | And I knew they 'd go up again on on Wednesday . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew they 'd win easy , ’ crowed Dancer . |
| 14 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 15 | ‘ They had tasted blood and I feared they would attack someone else . |
| 16 | The Smiths have this superstar aura about them now which is certainly not what I thought they would grow into . |
| 17 | I thought they would make that . |
| 18 | Farag laughed so loudly I thought they would hear us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ After I went to immigration ’ , recalls Rita , ‘ and I told them I was separated because my husband abused me , I thought they would look down on me and have more sympathy , and see what they can do . |
| 20 | I thought they would know , but they , they are closed at tw two o'clock in the afternoon , they open at two in the afternoon . |
| 21 | ‘ I was afraid of the Africans because I thought they would take over my farm . |
| 22 | My guess was right when I thought they would get an awful lot from a Video Course , even though it was n't in their language . |
| 23 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 24 | I thought they might give us badges to wear with our names on , like at conferences ; but I suppose they thought this would imply we were n't even capable of uttering our own names . |
| 25 | Well I say again , I thought they might go with the children . |
| 26 | I thought they might do for us — just for the moment , anyway . |
| 27 | I thought they might get in the car and … |
| 28 | I thought they might cheer you up . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I thought they might have been in your family . ’ |
| 30 | I thought they might have got here before I did . ’ |