Example sentences of "they [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It 's true that there are plenty of YDO 's , but without the help of teachers in the schools they could fighting a losing battle to take advantage of the favourite publicity emanating from the World Cup . |
| 62 | They could re-apprentice me . |
| 63 | Powerless to stop the violation , the peacekeepers then watched Croatian Serbs break into UN-guarded storage areas to remove their heavy weapons so they could retaliate. — Reuter |
| 64 | ‘ They could hiv cut my throat I never felt a thing . ’ |
| 65 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
| 66 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 67 | They could Chief Inspector Williams from here . |
| 68 | Before 1918 electors could have more than one vote , provided that they could quality in different towns or counties ; it was now proposed by Unionists that the qualifying area in boroughs should become the constituency rather than the borough itself . |
| 69 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 70 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 71 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 72 | Er , well , erm , they could sort of do it , erm , I mean , when I leave er , a place that , house that I used to live in , I leave a forwarding address but no , I make sure , with the people that erm , take over the house , but they do n't actually give out my phone number . |
| 73 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 74 | When a band starts out , they could pool everything with their manager . |
| 75 | Or they could fork to the right , up Once Hill , past the rectory and on to the steep , narrow road that wound over the downs to Badstoneleigh , off which the entrance gates of Sea House opened . |
| 76 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 77 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
| 78 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 79 | They 'd , they 'd , they 'd sort of say , they 'd , they , they were supposed to book a , a midwife you see . |
| 80 | And erm there used to be shops where they would , they 'd sort of say , we can give you pills to bring it on , but I , I do n't think they ever really did . |
| 81 | they 'd come out with half of one , they 'd come out with things like I think you 're er I du n no er , not barking up the wrong tree that was the wrong one , but the they 'd sort of come out with half of a pun and they would n't finish it off , like oh th , this is smashing ! |
| 82 | and I , I , probably only a youngster then , well I was about twenty six or seven , but er , I shall never forget her fingers were like claws she could n't move them they 'd sort of set |
| 83 | I I do n't think they 'd sort of hold up their arms and say well we 'll finish altogether if that 's your attitude . |
| 84 | They would dial-up , go to whichever part of the system they need , and call off selected files , such as a list of debtors . |
| 85 | If they discovered evidence of share dealing ahead of the takeover by individuals using confidential information they would institute more formal inquiries . |
| 86 | Truly my living words could vindicate me ; ask Helen , if they would not. , The necessary complement to the epistolary picture of his Oxford life is his own book Oxford , published three years after he came down . |
| 87 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 88 | They would trip off from school at four o'clock on a Friday , bright-eyed and singing Marc Bolan hits , and return glassy-eyed and forlorn on a Monday , having woken up on Sunday morning in a ditch with a bull-necked squaddie from Preston called Steve , with tobacco breath and boils on his neck . |
| 89 | They had too many people out ; there was a good chance that they would trip over each other . |
| 90 | From what I learned of their disappearance at the time , I never believed they would re-surface intact . |