Example sentences of "they [verb] they [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 17 | They realised they would have to race the tide . |
| 18 | Also , the person asking for the review has to agree that if they lose they will pay the other side 's costs . |
| 19 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 20 | Do they think they can get it up to fifteen ? |
| 21 | To put it another way : how did they think they could share their thoughts about the trick objects with another person ? |
| 22 | Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed . |
| 23 | Everything they grow they must take to the market to survive , but everything is expensive for them and so they have nothing . |
| 24 | Their skin will be very flushed and dry you 'll get deep sighing and this is the one you 'll get the smell of acetone , not always , you know the nail varnish smell , the pear drops , and then from there they 'll get , they 'll go into gradual I 've put coma there , but gradual unconsciousness treatment the same sugar , if it 's sugar they want they 'll come round almost immediately , if it 's , they 've already got too much well you have , that little bit 's not going to make them any worse , they 've got to go to hospital anyway . |
| 25 | They sense they may have the luck to see a teacher break down , actually self-destruct . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , how did they know they 'd get the Admiral ? |
| 27 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 28 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 29 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 30 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |