Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] they [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas said , ‘ I did n't know if they would do it . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know if they 'll get it . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know if they will make it but , either way , I doubt if I will see him again . |
| 4 | If it 's a works van tipping rubbish , they 'll charge them more , but you 'll have to pay , I do n't know whether they 'll do it by the load or by the bin bag or , what , you 'll have to pay to dump your rubbish . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 6 | Well erm , they , they do n't know whether they can do it or not do they ? |
| 7 | Oh , I 'll have to see wh she 's going to ring me this afternoon and say whether they can do it in the S C R. I 'm gon na try and persuade her that they can , because there are only forty people at this dinner and they 'll look stupid in the middle of the dining hall . |
| 8 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 9 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 10 | Yeah you wan na see if they can do it or not you can tell if somebody , if you give somebody something to do body language you can normally |
| 11 | No , I was just going to say that if , if you try it once , you know , you know if they can do it , they 'll be . |
| 12 | They know the cost of a mortgage today and they know whether they can afford it or not . |
| 13 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 14 | She had asked if they could have it private , early or late , but had been told they must join the club , for which there was a waiting list and a subscription . |
| 15 | Encounters such as this , the generosity of their friends , the friendship of artists and the Berkeleys ' belief in buying what they liked when they could afford it , gave the contents of the house its individuality . |
| 16 | Robin Powell was there to see whether they 'd make it . |
| 17 | Well it is quite true that if you come to eat before you see a film you have to ask if they can do it in time . |
| 18 | See if they 'll pay it , he was gon na get back to me today . |
| 19 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 20 | The Wallises report that the telephone regularly rings once or twice and then stops before they can answer it . |