Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must identify them and express them , otherwise frustration and anger build up . |
| 2 | He was less keen on United Artists ' New York Nights but reassured exhibitors that if their audiences ‘ liked jazz , murder , sex and whoopee then this should draw them and satisfy them ’ . |
| 3 | If the French should take them and see them directed to such noted men , they might take care to send them to them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll cook them and eat them . |
| 6 | They could n't get back to the bank without treading on shifting , clutching , cloying marsh , which could trap them and draw them right down ; and if they stayed in the car , sooner or later they would go under with it . |
| 7 | you could ring them and give them |
| 8 | Oh , too bad , she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them . |
| 9 | They 'd come and ask you for advice and you 'd tell them and help them all you could . |
| 10 | Out players were apoplectic and our secretary , a local bank manager , talked of suing for libel ; but the Captain threw back his head with two guffaws and said of course we 'd play them and show them a thing or two . |
| 11 | She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable . |
| 12 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 13 | But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station . |
| 14 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 15 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 16 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 17 | used to take 'em and wash 'em for me |
| 18 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 19 | The making of great telescopes , and of the mountings which would direct them and keep them focused on a star , required great industrial resources and skill . |
| 20 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 21 | Do him justice , he looks after his own , or at least he sees to it no one but himself shall flay them or hang them . |
| 22 | There she would lick them and give them her scent and then allow them to feed alongside her own kittens . |
| 23 | This creates a conflict for them because , although they want to be stroked and petted like any other domestic cat , they are deeply suspicious of the hand that does the petting , fearing that at any moment it may grab them and hold them down . |
| 24 | Remember that harmful thoughts will hurt you and let them go as soon as you become aware of them . |
| 25 | Karadjordje 's response was to declare : ‘ It is easy for the Sovereign Law of yours to rule in a warm room , behind a table , but let us see tomorrow , when the Turks strike , who will meet them and beat them . |
| 26 | We will confront them and defy them . |
| 27 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 28 | ‘ She will nip them and chase them away , ’ he said . |
| 29 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ you can peel them and boil them or cut them up and fry them or … ’ |