Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I left Rhos-y-Bol when I retired because I felt I they 'd have to have another nurse there , and you see the other nurse would never be able to enjoy the They would always be running to me a and it would n't be fair to another nurse . |
| 2 | Even so , I they can go and look up that lot of words in Shakespeare . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 4 | People want someone they can look up to . |
| 5 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 6 | Each time the Collective Ghost clutches at someone they must make a successful WP test or suffer the same effect ; if they are already suffering from despair , the effect lasts an extra D10 turns . |
| 7 | to remind somebody they 'll fill it in the accident |
| 8 | Therefore it is only natural for the sponsors to indulge in a little nepotism and provide its Japanese audience with somebody they can identify with while they are enjoying a nightcap . |
| 9 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 10 | I think they 'd say that they 'd like to see an officer in a car because they do n't see anybody , what they really mean they want to see somebody they can talk |
| 11 | It 's their duty to find somebody they can convict of Maurice 's murder . ’ |
| 12 | They 've set aside thousands of tonnes of salt which they 'll dump on icy road surfaces to make driving safer . |
| 13 | Having played a major role in Middlesbrough 's promotion to the UK League , in which they 'll start as a Division Four team this summer , Stuart now finds herself number one sprinter with the champions of the past three years . |
| 14 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | In the UK , Sun Microsystems ' drive to flush out some of the value-added resellers which it says do n't actually offer any value-add ( UX No 399 ) , will take the form of a new contract which they 'll have to sign to become authorised VARs . |
| 16 | They learn who the residents are , where they sleep and any particular problems which they might meet straight away . ’ |
| 17 | The evaluators observed one course which was devoted to showing teachers from prospective Major Project schools a variety of worksheets , project books and software on which they might choose to spend some of their grant , and another in which nationally known figures ( Royston McHugh from the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and Ron Mitson from the Abraham Moss Centre ) sought to inspire a good attendance with the philosophy of a more broadly conceived RBL . |
| 18 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 19 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 20 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 21 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 22 | References to the ‘ incomers ’ are phrased in terms of the benefits which they might bring . |
| 23 | The great families of Rome had fortified towers or residences from which they might control the main routes in and out of the city . |
| 24 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |
| 25 | Mill wanted to protect children against the harm which they might do themselves . |
| 26 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |
| 27 | The argument runs that annuity rates have come down ( which they have done ) and that , therefore , they will go back up again ( which they might do , or they might go down further ) . |
| 28 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 29 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 30 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |