Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 'd part them would n't you ? |
| 2 | But two new devices now available mean they will soon be able to put some distance between them and the chemical . |
| 3 | But even in their religion they could not keep together … |
| 4 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 5 | Christ , if they took speed they could be high six hours . |
| 6 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 7 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 8 | The scheme includes access to databases on health and safety topics which can help representatives overcome the sense of isolation they might otherwise experience from being based offshore , he said . |
| 9 | Look out for the splatter ( a knuckle-cracking heavy who uses more force than a bouncer ) , pay a quick visit to heaven and hell , and as for Santa 's in-store ‘ grotty ’ … it 's tacky , vulgar , and full of overpriced garbage they could n't sell during the year ! |
| 10 | If the symptoms are of the remedy they will disappear in a few days and no more medicine may be needed . |
| 11 | At first glance they may seem confining and restrictive , but more careful evaluation shows that the structure of laws enables us to live in a healthy and balanced way , in moderation and without excess . |
| 12 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 13 | The political spin-offs from crusading are therefore more difficult to calculate than at first glance they might appear . |
| 14 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 15 | — The larynx becomes dry and they wake with spasms in the throat thinking they will choke . |
| 16 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 17 | The dealing manager would tell them what stock they would be selling . |
| 18 | There 's nothing there at all so there 's no stock they can sell , they 've shut down I expect . |
| 19 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 20 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 21 | On the other side they would lay out a little town , using the river as a division . |
| 22 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 23 | ‘ I wonder which side they 'll be on , ’ Petion murmured , with a hint of worry in his voice . |
| 24 | And the , as we got our own side they can , they can win perhaps they just around |
| 25 | For citizens , enterprises and state and non-state institutions of the other side they will create favourable frameworks for entrepreneurial and other economic activity … |
| 26 | Vertical movement along a fault may lead to the impoundment of streams if they are flowing towards the uplifted block , whereas if they are flowing towards the down-thrown side they will rapidly cut down through the fault scarp . |
| 27 | They came home from the sortie on Sunday knowing that the next time they sit down to pick an Under-25 international side they will be looking for three new skips . |
| 28 | Unfortunately as the blocks reached the wall at either side they could not ride on or off at the ends . |
| 29 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 30 | And sitting on the ground , with his back against the sign which told travellers which side they should be queuing on , he found the Campbell . |