Example sentences of "they [modal v] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may do it with the help of the symbols of the church , or the language of the Bible in the orthodox way . |
| 2 | Police are understandably resistant to advice on how they ought to do their job from those without experience of it . |
| 3 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 4 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 5 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 6 | people think they ought to do something for you . |
| 7 | Thus when the officials think they must do something to stimulate tourism , plant trees or preserve the countryside , instead of acting themselves , they float a tourist board , a forestry commission or a countryside commission . |
| 8 | ‘ They wanted more details and I said it was a murder dammit and why did n't they do something about it and he said ‘ Another of those ’ and … well they must do something . |
| 9 | they must do something about the park court this summer , get the perspex sheeting renew renewed |
| 10 | Now the opportunity had once again been given to them , she felt that they must do nothing to jeopardise the future . |
| 11 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 12 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 13 | Liverpool and Birmingham , Cropper and Sturge , worked together through these meetings ( 2,000 at Liverpool ) to ‘ have a powerful effect on Parliament and they must do their duty ’ . |
| 14 | They must do their |
| 15 | Well they must do them Sarah , must n't they ? |
| 16 | As I said , they do , they must do them themselves and sell |
| 17 | They must do what Sisyphus was commanded to do but , unlike Sisyphus , they must succeed . |
| 18 | Oh , they must do I suppose , they . |
| 19 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |
| 20 | Do they , they must do it |
| 21 | They should do whatever you do . |
| 22 | On nationalisation , this local democratic pressure was removed , and most Boards took the statute as meaning they should do their best to extend supplies to rural areas even if they incurred losses in doing so which had to be made up from surpluses elsewhere . |
| 23 | Ministers make excuses in their own interests , but they are responsible for these matters and they should do their job properly . |
| 24 | They d they should do them in like fishing shops |
| 25 | In his 1927 Manifesto to intellectuals Barbusse argued that they should do everything possible to help the birth of a new society . |
| 26 | ‘ I do think they should do something for it . ’ |
| 27 | drop in their fortunes in the opinion polls did they decide that , with the general election coming up , and the prospect of their being routed , they should do something . |
| 28 | Well they should do something about it Brenda . |
| 29 | In one way they should do something about people having second homes and make it more , that they get more tax out of them or something |
| 30 | that 's what they should do I 'd of thought |