Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 2 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 3 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 4 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 5 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 6 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 7 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 8 | If they ask for an explanation and are told that it is shooting at a wooden bird in the graveyard with bows and arrows , they may think they are being hoaxed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 11 | However , they do not give doctors legal justification for a particular course of action but they may give them greater moral authority ’ . |
| 12 | Clearly corporations exercise substantial discretionary controls over the timing and fullness of their responses to consumer demands , including the possibility that for a decade or more they may ignore them ’ . |
| 13 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 14 | At the other extreme , they may decide they must contrive an artificial research setting in order to exclude the operation of unwanted variables . |
| 15 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 16 | Offering the children a reward to achieve a standard they may feel they never can is often counter-productive . |
| 17 | ‘ They may feel they 're charging what the market will bear . ’ |
| 18 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ They may feel they will be the number ones , but I am very pleased with my new partner . |
| 21 | They may say they are not sick when clearly they are ; this is because of the mental state . |
| 22 | They may say they 've ‘ failed ’ , they 're ‘ hopeless and helpless ’ . |
| 23 | Erm and although they may say they 're noise tested , erm I think you 've got ta question whether they 're noise tested to the level . |
| 24 | But other couples will either find a way through and re-negotiate their relationship to allow for the different people that they 've now become , or they may shelve them because they get caught up in the , the very busyness of life , what we call the , the productivity phase , which is the third phase , where couples are maybe having children , building up a family , building up careers ; they 're involved in that sort of activity . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | They may consider them too trivial or feel that the police would be able to offer little assistance . |
| 27 | they may get they get sort of get a bad name and perhaps not |
| 28 | In fact they may recommend they have people see him . |
| 29 | Erm in both of them it 's , they 're saying that how they 're falling behind and they ought to lead them as opposed to joining them . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think they ought to let them out , walking about like that in those black clothes . |