Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they think they can get it up to fifteen ? |
| 2 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 3 | Now what have they have they said they can hear you breathing more quickly or more deeply or rattly or |
| 4 | If they find the stimulus too strong they know they can reduce it . |
| 5 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 6 | If you explain your personal requirements they claim they can meet them . |
| 7 | ‘ They claim they can pay it back over a three to four-year period . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This new money , these upstarts , they do n't know their place — they think they can tell me what to do , ’ she went on . |
| 9 | They think they can beat me . |
| 10 | Probably they think they can catch him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps they think she can take it because she 's an interviewer herself . ’ |
| 12 | yeah , she maybe does , but I think she 's trying to , to try and promote the fact that aids patients are harmless , because a lot of aids patients are very isolated , people do n't want to know them , they think you can catch it through shaking hands , drinking out the same cup and all that , and I think she 's trying to prove that look I 'm alright , so should you be , but she does go a bit over the top |
| 13 | They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit . |
| 14 | Well for what they see I can understand him asking Joan and Graham erm maybe they 've got ta watch how much they 're |
| 15 | ‘ We want them to feel they can join us , hop off for a bit , and re-join further down the line . ’ |