Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they got nearer they could see it was some-one , head and shoulders clearly visible . |
| 2 | Together they would go to the Tivoli and Grand Theatres in Manchester , and when they got home he would get her to imitate the dances she had seen . |
| 3 | I think when they lived there they used to meet regularly , cos erm , I suppose Worcester , Worcester in November |
| 4 | The people why they want here they can have cheaper right here . |
| 5 | Has anyone got anything else they want particularly they 'd like ? |
| 6 | What about the ones where they say well we 'll repair it for you ? |
| 7 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |
| 8 | I mean we could cook it much more cheaply but we we do that then they 'd just they 'll throw the book at us , we ca n't do it . |
| 9 | If they acted accordingly it would increase the risk that just such an epidemic would occur , ’ he warned . |
| 10 | These scouts need to be aware of new fashions as they happen so we can react immediately . |
| 11 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 12 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 13 | C I hope they 're so saddened that they threw now they 'll go out and buy it . |
| 14 | They know exactly who can help you buy a train ticket , who can iron away which problem . |
| 15 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 16 | If they drive fast they might hit someone . |
| 17 | If you do it that way , you know , by the time they get there they should know what the questions are should n't they ? |
| 18 | if they flew away it would fall down . |
| 19 | Mostly teenagers , they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers . |
| 20 | They died so we could live . |
| 21 | Cos usu when they go away , cos they 're not going away this weekend , but when they go away you should come down cos the flat 's quiet and I ai n't got nothing to do , sit and play my computer . |
| 22 | Cos our John used to come in and she goes you know said you 'll have to excuse me , once they go away I can relax . |
| 23 | I have a great input in the selection of the side and , when things go well you take the credit , so when they go badly you must take responsibility . ’ |
| 24 | When they go home you can get on with some electronic angling with your detector . |
| 25 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 26 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 27 | They have rejected an internal market as such , but they have proposed funding hospitals on the basis of the work they do — if they do more they will get more — up to a point . |
| 28 | If they do so they will find a small lady 's reticule which has slipped down behind one of the seat coverings . |
| 29 | well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about |
| 30 | Okay but they were f they were twenty awkward ones if they said right we 'll have you pick any twenty words you know and see if you can spell them you 'd get twenty out of twenty would n't you . |