Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not but what ‘ t is trouble enough that they must needs be gone , leaving us with this madman on the other side of the moat . |
| 2 | A mother otter will bring a half-dead fish and give it to her young to play with in a pool so that they may practice the dives and swoops that are needed to be a successful underwater hunter . |
| 3 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
| 4 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
| 5 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 6 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 7 | the er the bigger one the half A three , it erm they are meant really to be targeted for people coming through that they can hand information to . |
| 8 | Tourists come to Edinburgh to enjoy the delights of the Old Town , Holyrood Park and the Crags and not because they can bevvy up , create noise and nuisance until after 3am , ’ she added . |
| 9 | Cos these lads now that have gone back , and they were scabs then and they 'll scabs they will be all their lives now . |