Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] the things " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 2 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 3 | And I 'd rather have the things I used to see than your phoney talk any day . |
| 4 | We may then arrange the things that are required for making a commodity into whatever groups are convenient , and call them its factors of production . |
| 5 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |
| 6 | I can hardly see the things on the table in the corner . |