Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] they [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 2 | ‘ For that kind of penance they will pay £550 and know that the hard work is just a beginning . |
| 3 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 4 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |
| 5 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |
| 6 | Of course they could cancel Burleigh 's participation . |
| 7 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 8 | The paper 's political editor , Trevor Kavanagh , has been suggesting at Westminster that John Smith is the kind of man they can do business with . |
| 9 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 10 | I asked , stepping sideways to avoid a brace of female traffic wardens and smiling my best smile as a talisman in case they should visit Golden Square . |
| 11 | In addition they will spend £2million on billboard , newspaper and magazine ads . |
| 12 | In return they will give £30 , and a range of OBO fixings worth another £20 , to the most amusing letter each month — to make sure you get it right next time ! |
| 13 | The RSPCA says that cases like these often bring just token fines from magistrates , when in fact they could impose fines of up to £2,000 and or 6 months imprisonment . |
| 14 | Yet I think that in fact they can make life easier for mother and baby . |
| 15 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |