Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 2 | What is more , such actions as imposing regulation , though they may tend to acquire a momentum of their own , are nevertheless hardly irreversible . |
| 3 | Or they may fail to evoke a response at all . |
| 4 | We recognise that local authorities are under a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and that they may wish to stock a range of material about homosexuality , dealing with homosexual themes or written by homosexual authors . |
| 5 | Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy . |
| 6 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 7 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 8 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 9 | They may have got a number one , but it cost them ! |
| 10 | But they must have cost a lot |
| 11 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 12 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ But they must have made a mistake — that ca n't possibly be right ! ’ |
| 14 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 15 | No they must have had a cylinder there already . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 17 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |
| 18 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 19 | ‘ They must have had a lot of replies , ’ said Penelope . |
| 20 | Well they must have had a lot of bottle . |
| 21 | They must have had a key , then ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If somebody killed him they must have had a motive , but what ? |
| 23 | Er yes , I s suspect they must have paid a lot of money to have that done too . |
| 24 | Clare was , well , desirable to say the bloody least , and they must have spent a lot of time together writing speeches , or whatever it is politicians do . |
| 25 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 26 | They must have got a rocket from manager , Brian Horton . |
| 27 | They must have got a piggy bank somewhere . |
| 28 | They must have sold a lot of tickets . |
| 29 | They must begin teaching a syllabus this September to pupils who will sit their exams in 1994 , but the exam fee will not be set until the end of next year . |
| 30 | No objection had been raised at the time , he said , and ‘ it is absurd that they should start to quibble a week later and try to reopen the issue ’ . |