Example sentences of "they [verb] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are fascinated by how things grow , so the new series of books from Dorling Kindersley entitled See How They Grow will have them enthralled . |
| 2 | The residents of a small Lanarkshire village have blocked a main road in a protest against essential repair work , which they say will isolate them completely . |
| 3 | Police are keen to recover her stolen black handbag , which they say could help them find to her attackers . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the police have produced new evidence which they hope will lead them to the killer . |
| 5 | Happily for their manager Sebastiao Lazaroni , the Brazilians are now unbeaten in 15 games and embarked on a run which they hope will carry them to Turin next summer on a wave of confidence and efficiency . |
| 6 | Torvill and Dean back on British ice for the training routine they hope will take them to championship success once again . |
| 7 | They are talking a language we probably do not understand , and which they hope will impress us and befuddle us and increase their status . |
| 8 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 9 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and another senior detective , Chief Inspector Ricky Gray , had travelled to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 10 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and Chief Inspector Ricky Gray had gone to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 11 | Such opposition from his former Anglican and Tory allies persuaded James to try to forge an alliance with the Dissenters , in the hope that the disabilities under which they suffered would give them common cause with the Catholics to support the removal of the penal laws . |
| 12 | When they come to live and work in England they expect no language difficulties such as they know would await them in , say , Panama or Cuba . |
| 13 | Good players have a large vocabulary of patterns that they know will give them an advantage ; these are the ‘ ends ’ . |
| 14 | Despite their often middle-class origins , these uprooted opponents of Fidel Castro , who have never gained the support they anticipated would enable them to return in triumph to their native land , find consolation in the arms of the Santeria spirits , which are of partly African origin . |
| 15 | Many of Britain 's civil servants have been on strike in protest at what they see as moves towards privatisation which they believe could cost them their jobs . |
| 16 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 17 | He must be ‘ full of knowledge , even of tillage and pasturage , and through teaching people by what they understand must lead them to what they understand not ’ . |
| 18 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 19 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 20 | Thanking everyone for their support and encouragement , Mr. Nicole said they were finding in the parish ‘ a diversity of experience ’ which they knew would help them grow as Christians and as ministers . |
| 21 | The key that they thought would enable them to achieve this was palladium , a light grey metal similar to platinum in appearance . |
| 22 | I shall approach their work , in short , in the light of the pragmatist belief that a study of the problems they pose and the solutions they offer may provide us not merely with a new perspective on the scope of holistic explanations , but also with the best means , in the end , of assessing their strength . |
| 23 | The need to assist people to be economically active where they live may make it expedient to encourage educational support systems linked with other services at the local level . |
| 24 | Increased understanding of the burdens which they carry should lead us to greater awareness of the strain under which they are so often put . |
| 25 | ‘ They say things they think will keep us happy until the next tragedy , ’ he told a news conference . |
| 26 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 27 | They take will help us trace some lost Before |
| 28 | These highly intelligent androids , perfect except for their total inability to think creatively , had devised a super robot which they intended should lead them . |