Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | might say , I 'm a beef farmer , erm I enjoy my , my beef very much , my philosophy is that erm , if we 're going to use animals we 're going to eat the , their time here should be as humane , they should have as humane treatment as possible , and they should be free from fear , hunger and pain , and when the time comes for them to go they should know as little about it as possible . |
| 2 | no , makes them think they might come up do you want some porridge , mummy do you some porridge ? |
| 3 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 4 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 5 | Patrol leader Captain David Hall said : ‘ We 're letting them know they can get food without instability . ’ |
| 6 | Two out of three motorists surveyed said the anti-car crime TV advertising campaign , featuring hyenas preying on unprotected vehicles , made them feel they should do more about car security , he told a London conference . |
| 7 | Two out of three motorists surveyed said the anti-car crime TV advertising campaign , featuring hyenas preying on unprotected vehicles , made them feel they should do more about car security , he told a London conference . |
| 8 | Two out of three motorists surveyed said the anti-car crime TV advertising campaign , featuring hyenas preying on unprotected vehicles , made them feel they should do more about car security , he told a London conference . |
| 9 | ‘ The one thing you have got to give the fans is hope , and we 've got the staff at Aresenal to get them believing we can win things . ’ |
| 10 | He says ; Once one of them says we will go with him then they will all go because they will stick together but I was very suprised with the ammount of people that go . |
| 11 | Well do n't have it done then well if you have them done you 'll have them with the frame |
| 12 | ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’ |
| 13 | But I put out the flags — let them see I 'd come back . |
| 14 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 15 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 16 | Okay , you want the body temperature kept at an even level , do n't have it too high , do n't have it too low , cos if you shiver you make use of muscles and then the muscles will call on oxygen and then you 'll shiver , you do n't want them there you want the blood in here , if you make them sweat you 'll bring the blood to the surface of the skin again to lose heat , and that 's again precisely where you do n't need , you want it in the core of the body so you maintain an even body temperature . |
| 17 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 18 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 19 | The local constituency officers got new people and could plan how and when to use them — and later many of them decided they 'd like to go on working with their new friends . |
| 20 | If I see them collecting I 'll ask . |
| 21 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |
| 22 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 23 | And they fear it could mean the end of traditional pubs . |
| 24 | They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news . |
| 25 | When consulted on the alterations , the ladies considered that it was wiser to spend on greens and approaches but ‘ if on the clubhouse then for the caretaker ’ — i.e. a larger kitchen and scullery ’ , although they admitted they would like more basins and another w.c . |
| 26 | They agreed it will go before the District Council without change on the fourth of January , whatever the decision on County on the improvements , if there are any , to Hill . |
| 27 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
| 28 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 29 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 30 | They realised they would have to race the tide . |