Example sentences of "[pron] they [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it . |
| 2 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 3 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 4 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 5 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 6 | In pursuit of their ends , reformers and others were compelled to alter their perceptions of ( and attitudes toward ) young people and , therefore , the images which they used to order and define them . |
| 7 | They raised £100 in the process , which they used to order their flag . |
| 8 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 9 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 10 | Within the gate of what is now the Bank of Scotland 's premises in Jedburgh is preserved a ‘ Loupin'-on Stane ’ from which they used to mount their horses before setting off . |
| 11 | It is important to realise , however , that the planning totals in the Public Expenditure White Paper from 1990 onwards exclude an element of local spending which they used to include . |
| 12 | In spite of the political persecutions after 1848 , political or ideological refugees formed only a small fraction of mass emigration , even in 1849–54 , though at one time the radicals among them controlled half the German-language press of the United States , which they used to denounce their country of refuge . |
| 13 | Which they used to have down those streets . |
| 14 | Later , when their work had become completely Cubist , Picasso and Braque devised a more elaborate and sophisticated method of dealing with solid forms but the means which they used to differentiate between the parts of planes or an object or figure and the devices they used to reconcile it to the picture plane were , it will be seen , not unlike those which Picasso used so boldly here . |
| 15 | Do you remember them when you they used to come and hunt ? |
| 16 | There was a half of the premises , and the casual wards there they , course I tell you they used to have to bath and then they used to have to do chopping wood and sort of work like , like that . |
| 17 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 18 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 19 | In the 3 years before she died , her family did everything they could to support her , but it was a struggle . |
| 20 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 21 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
| 22 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 23 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 24 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 25 | As devout Catholics , the O'Dells preferred not to attend the civil ceremony , but that did n't stop them doing everything they could to make the reception an unforgettable occasion . |
| 26 | With Niki still on his bed of pain , but perhaps beginning to turn his iron will towards recovery , Ferrari did everything they could to try to get the Austrian Grand Prix cancelled . |
| 27 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | However , the civil servants at the Soviet Ministry , headed by the legendary figure who had charge of the entire country 's fine arts , the ‘ unsinkable ’ Genrikh Popov ( as the experts euphemistically dubbed him ) , along with the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery , Yuri Korolev , did everything they could to ensure that the project was never realized . |
| 29 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 30 | They have made them because they are determined to do everything they can to save their business and their employees ' jobs and to secure a healthier future . |