Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 2 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 3 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 4 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 5 | In fact you might say that they ought to start back at the beginning and study politics and war because , looking at the world today , maybe there are a lot more useful things to study than art and architecture . |
| 6 | They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training . |
| 7 | They must walk out through the camp gate and cross the road and the railway line and then the file will enter the compound of the Factory . |
| 8 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 9 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 10 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 11 | Joy said that this really was n't on and that they must pull up at the side of the road and try to find some stones or something with which to wedge the coffin . |
| 12 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 13 | They must lie up in the caves , if we do send refugees here , and in the pinewoods and the tall juniper — they will do even in the winter . |
| 14 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |
| 15 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 16 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 17 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 18 | They should get out into the real world . |
| 19 | The track of the animals seemed likely to take them within two hundred yards of their hiding place , so they should crawl out onto the plain to try to get a shot from half that range . |
| 20 | They 'll scoot off to the Lake District and search round for days . ’ |
| 21 | And they 'll reach out to the best part of your body . |
| 22 | There 's plenty of speculation as to where they 'll end up after the auction . |
| 23 | ‘ No , they 'll end up in the pawnshop , ’ I sobbed . |
| 24 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 25 | ‘ Perks thinks they 'll go along beside the railway line . |
| 26 | And they 'll go back on the road before that happens . |
| 27 | They 'll go back to the The two sergeants 'll turn up . |
| 28 | They 'll go in with the with the occupant , at the same time we 'll inform Road Police Station . |
| 29 | So erm I imagine they 'll come up during the course of the programme . |
| 30 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |