Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 2 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 3 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 4 | However , doing them would make us feel better and re-energize us ! |
| 5 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 6 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 7 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 8 | They may want you to help to sort out the personal belongings of the dead partner , which is always a painful job . |
| 9 | For the ‘ motions of the mind ’ , our desires and aversions , and what they may lead us to do , are not theoretical constructs known only by ‘ ratiocination ’ , and introduced as an intermediary stage in the reduction of political to natural philosophy . |
| 10 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 11 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 12 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 13 | They may say they 've ‘ failed ’ , they 're ‘ hopeless and helpless ’ . |
| 14 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 15 | Acknowledge their status , and they may let you know when the person you want to talk to is available . |
| 16 | ‘ When those concerned turn their attention to this problem , they may find they have to make a distinction between litigation in which there is a direct public interest in the result and that in which the public interest is limited to ensuring that an adequate system of justice is available . |
| 17 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 18 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 19 | They may find someone to talk to , but rarely someone with whom they can actually cry although Damon Runyan claimed that the tears shed on Broadway by ‘ guys in love ’ , would produce enough salt water to start an opposition to the Atlantic and the Pacific . |
| 20 | they may get they get sort of get a bad name and perhaps not |
| 21 | In fact they may recommend they have people see him . |
| 22 | If you have written in response to an advertisement they may ask you to telephone to arrange a suitable time for the interview . |
| 23 | cos that 's one thing they will come back and do later on when they review your C C Q they may ask you to go back and say there was a loan or |
| 24 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 25 | Mike added : ‘ This is not a clampdown , but a concerted attempt by the Company to help employees tackle any alcohol-related problems they may have which affect their performance at work . |
| 26 | They may have nothing to offer , but that has not stopped them holding press conferences or making public statements . |
| 27 | Such measures may not tackle the root causes , but they may help everyone to recognise the seriousness of the problem . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , I send you these meditations , hoping they may help you to continue your great book . |
| 29 | But if they can be measured they may help us relate fertility decisions to the values , meanings , or signs which people use to make sense of the world and which motivate or justify their actions . |
| 30 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |