Example sentences of "and they [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've told the police the name of Frank 's firm and they 'll trace him . |
| 2 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |
| 3 | They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory . |
| 4 | And they would call him Michael , not Mick . |
| 5 | And they would believe him . |
| 6 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 7 | He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds . |
| 8 | Their mascot is a donkey , and they will have him ( or her ) with them as they play at Wembley . |
| 9 | The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Immanuel ( Mark 1:23 ) . |
| 10 | He raped you , and they will get him for that . |
| 11 | He untied the rope and then bent , inspecting the horse carefully , examining each leg , and they could hear him talking all the time , soothing , quiet words that stilled the animal . |
| 12 | And he used to come and they could see him coming for he had to come in a cart . |
| 13 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 14 | Yeah , he was on it some time and Charles and they 'd put him back on the ward becau when John last saw him , cos he , John was visiting er , used to be having treatment or something at |
| 15 | He was a lazy drunkard , and they used to pay him but he never took hardly any money home . |
| 16 | According to the agreement Giorgio , Anna 's little boy , spent a couple of months each year with his mother and they used to send him over with a nurse-maid and a courier . |