Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme , they may decide they must contrive an artificial research setting in order to exclude the operation of unwanted variables . |
| 2 | I mean they must find they must find it expensive because I mean if they 're keeping that house on they have to have somebody going in to look at it , wo n't they ? |
| 3 | They should go they should go for quite a number of years . |
| 4 | They should take you should issue them with a leaflet |
| 5 | I am sure that there 's ways they 'll find they can cut their prices dramatically . |
| 6 | They 'll say they 'll know she came from . |
| 7 | And they 'll take they 'll take everything away from you no messing around . |
| 8 | They 'll know we can speak English , at least . " |
| 9 | The system tells us they 'll use you 'll frighten them off . |
| 10 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 11 | They might think they can do so by managing it better , by motivating the managers better , by putting the firm together with something else , or in other ways . |
| 12 | I think if they could talk they would ask visitors not to throw food into their enclosure . |
| 13 | They could have they could have even faxed it . |
| 14 | They could discuss which would get cold most quickly , which would stay hottest longest and why . |
| 15 | If the buses ran from Bramford Road to Lattice Barn one year , they 'd decide they 'd send them from Bramford Road to Bourne Bridge the next . |
| 16 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 17 | So they 'd get they 'd get that much . |
| 18 | By the seven beards of his ancestors , Balor would run , and they 'd see who could run faster ! |
| 19 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 20 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 21 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 22 | and if you were having a boy they used to say you would carry the baby all round sort of thing |
| 23 | They used to say you can tell a man by the shoes he wears . |
| 24 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 25 | They used to have they used to have cars , taxis and what have you . |
| 26 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 27 | See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter . |
| 28 | And Pa Pat I do n't think I do n't hold out any hope at all that people will pay any attention they will go they 'll see a little puppy somewhere they 'll say , Oh that 's lovely we 'll buy that for Tommy er , and then Tommy will abuse it totally and er they 'll say , Well the dog was a a waste of time it did n't work properly and er did n't know how to er how to look after itself . |
| 29 | And when you talk to them they will say we can find out whether they 've got a criminal record or not , how can they offer that service in the public domain without having access to your computer ? |
| 30 | If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below : |