Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
| 7 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 8 | They realised they would have to race the tide . |
| 9 | So everybody who got the newsletter when they read it should have thought , Aha best look up |
| 10 | While I was on bail and Stephen was still with foster parents , they promised I could have Stephen for Christmas . |
| 11 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 12 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 13 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They found they could explain all the experimental data on neutral weak currents by assuming quantum mixing between the electromagnetic current and the neutral weak current . |
| 16 | But when they descended by special lift from the fifth , nomenklatura floor , they found they could traverse only one passage . |
| 17 | ‘ I know , ’ said Marian , smiling , ‘ it was the horses … their faces when they found you 'd cut loose the horses . ’ |
| 18 | So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it . |
| 19 | The number of women poets swelled through the century , not least because they learnt they could speak to one another in this way . |
| 20 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 21 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 22 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 23 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 24 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 25 | They believed he would grow by six inches — but Steven added another two for good measure . |
| 26 | 38 witnesses , among 90 creditors owed almost £2 million when How went bankrupt , have told the court they believed he 'd put their money into secure deposit accounts . |
| 27 | They assumed I 'd go to Chislehurst with them , but I said I 'd turn up later on my bike ; I 'd make my own arrangements . |
| 28 | They assumed he would provide a technical input but underestimated the degree of creative guidance he would proffer . |
| 29 | Well there 's a physical limit to how much we could produce in a an eight hour shift and all the slate makers were adamant that the figures he reckoned they could produce and what they reckoned they could produce you know they were totally different . |
| 30 | And if they thought that she was going to invite Colin and Yvonne in for a drink when they arrived they would get a shock . |