Example sentences of "[pers pn] they [vb mod] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet you they 'll find a way of spending it all . |
| 2 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 3 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 4 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 5 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 6 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 8 | I 'm a bit worried about that song , if Chas ‘ n ’ Dave get to hear it they might declare a fatwah . ’ |
| 9 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 10 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 11 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |