Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 2 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 3 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 4 | When you get them going they will readily take double caster or three bronze maggots offered on a size 14 . |
| 5 | a story for them decided I could n't do it . |
| 6 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 7 | The POA says previous appeals for extra staff have fallen on deaf ears ; if the same happens this time , they fear they 'll soon have a riot on their hands . |
| 8 | Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies . |
| 9 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 10 | They sell out you wo n't believe this they sell you wo n't believe this , they sell |
| 11 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 12 | But they vow it wo n't put them off policing . |
| 13 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |
| 14 | ‘ We knew that despite what they promised we would n't get any real control , ’ comments Gilbert Hernandez . |
| 15 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 16 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 17 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 18 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 19 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 20 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 21 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 22 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 23 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 24 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 25 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 26 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 27 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 28 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 29 | They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops . |
| 30 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |