Example sentences of "[pers pn] they [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet you they 'll find a way of spending it all . |
| 2 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 3 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 5 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 6 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 7 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 8 | If only Harry were to fall in love with her they could have a wonderful life together . |
| 9 | Erm but if you 're dealing with issues about human relationship then they 're very very important , very powerful and er they they can make a huge difference familiarity , sensitivity in the use of this kind of can be very important Okay , we 'll come back to that cos I w when we come when we 're actually looking at improving communication we 'll come back to those issues . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 11 | I 'm a bit worried about that song , if Chas ‘ n ’ Dave get to hear it they might declare a fatwah . ’ |
| 12 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 13 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 14 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 15 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 16 | To make it harder for vermin to get into 'em they used to draw a wagon alongside a stack , and stand on the wagon with a scythe and then trim the stack . |
| 17 | Dixons supplied the machine with 2Mb of RAM , but assured us they would supply a 2Mb upgrade within a few days . |