Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 2 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 3 | One carries a rope and he frets about its purpose , whether it 's required , where they could possibly have used it . |
| 4 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 5 | The coloured golf ball-sized stocking fillers , known as Jelly Balls , can be thrown at walls where they will then stick . |
| 6 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
| 7 | Other animals described in this book have occupied a specific ecological niche where they can quietly pursue their own speciality without embarking on any spectacular radiation in the manner of the ammonoids . |
| 8 | Any readers who want to collect aluminium cans can either send them to me or contact local scrap metal dealers and take them there , where they can then donate the cash to a charity of their own choice . |
| 9 | Cable & Wireless 's manager for managed data networks , Richard Henables , says that they will either be integrated at a later date , or they may simply receive a send level of service . |
| 10 | Or they may simply find that their headaches become more frequent and more painful . |
| 11 | Generative linguists consider punctuation to be simply prosody and of relevance for the language — or they may simply believe it to be uninteresting . |
| 12 | he said they may just go one to forty six he said or they may even go forty eight on that one to even it up . |
| 13 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 14 | People posted abroad are also unhappy about losing touch with family and friends or they may even worry about what will happen to pets . |
| 15 | This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity . |
| 16 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 17 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 18 | Counselling skills can be learned but they do require practice and Burnard warns that counselling techniques should not be overused or they may indeed impede listening and communication . |
| 19 | If they still wanted to expand their original business there are other ways of doing so : there might be scope for a small hotel at L'Auberge , for instance , or for outside catering around Chelmslow , or they might even capitalize on George 's knowledge of French wines by setting up an off-licence and specialist wine importation business . |
| 20 | folk folk that know you either w might be too critical or they might just switch off because they have heard it before . |
| 21 | Or they might just clamber over the wall at any point . |
| 22 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 23 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 24 | I do n't suppose No they would n't have any warning about this going to happen or they would never have taking a lot of bairns down among it . |
| 25 | Desire , yes , of course , or they would never have ended up like this , but also a reluctant fascination and a curiously protective tendency that she found both touching and revealing . |
| 26 | Of course in order to be effective anti-viral agents they must at some stage be dependent on a viral enzyme to convert them into their active form , or they must selectively inhibit viral enzymes directly . |
| 27 | Try not to start to leeward of a group of yachts or they will probably sail over you . |
| 28 | Close friends and family — those who really care about you — will be happy to comply but you must remember to tell them that you would like them to indicate what they think are your weaknesses as well as your strengths or they will simply say nice things about you . |
| 29 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 30 | But I actually think that you 've got access problems in both of them and they have to be considered because the do really affect severely or they could severely affect er the success or failure of the programme , and it 's these list of things which you think , now I 've thought about that or I have n't thought about that . |