Example sentences of "[that] they [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 2 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 3 | Research for the 1974 Press Commission confirmed both that they enjoyed their paper less than readers of the populars and that they would miss it worse if deprived of it . |
| 4 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 5 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 6 | He was n't even sure that they would want him . |
| 7 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 8 | One suspects that the writers were not altogether clear in their own minds ; the monk of Croyland , for all his extravagant remarks about the northerners , also spoke in terms of the ‘ sovereignty of England ’ , when describing a prophecy among the Welsh , whom he certainly regarded as different , that they would recover it from the English , although they failed to do so in 1469 ( 14 , p.543 ) . |
| 9 | The Grimaud family had written to say that they would meet her with a blue Corvette . |
| 10 | Who could hate her so much that they would send her something like that ? |
| 11 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 12 | Erm th there 's just a comment I 'd like to make that they have said that they would place it on that figure report on our . |
| 13 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 14 | Not only did they enjoy , indeed relish , healthy sexual appetites , they made it obvious that they would satisfy them where and when they felt like it , on their Own terms . |
| 15 | Although two thirds of companies had not previously used outside advice and counselling , 35% did say that they would consider it . |
| 16 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 17 | There would be no more hinting now that they would like him to leave . |
| 18 | In a recent survey of consultant staff supervising preregistration house officers in Yorkshire 79% admitted that they had had no training in educational method , yet three quarters stated that they would like it . |
| 19 | Police indicated that they would charge him under Zimbabwe 's Law and Order Maintenance Act for a statement he issued on Monday accusing the government of ‘ state terrorism ’ against students . |
| 20 | He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question . |
| 21 | It was too amusing — that they would imagine she could be taken along so easily . |
| 22 | Not that they would condemn him . |
| 23 | Could Kevin 's parents really be so careless that they would lose him twice ? |
| 24 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 25 | Forcing open the door against the wind , he waved at the advancing policeman and stepped clear of the cabin so that they would see he was unarmed . |
| 26 | ‘ That they would get it clear ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We never expected that they would attack us from behind — from Ethiopia , ’ said Dr Justin Arop , SPLA representative in Nairobi . |
| 28 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |
| 29 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 30 | I think that they would find it quite difficult to actually do that er without very many incursions into the greenbelt . |