Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 2 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 3 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 4 | " If you 'll nobbut stop runnin' after 'em they 'll settle down . |
| 5 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 6 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 7 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 8 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 9 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 10 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 11 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 12 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 13 | Similarly , although many physically handicapped adults are extremely independent in their everyday lives , the AL of maintaining a safe environment is one aspect of living with which they may need considerable help . |
| 14 | So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics . |
| 15 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 16 | When we have what one might call this coarse-cut overview , we then have tended to approach the businesses and ask them to produce a variety of scenarios ranging from what they would like to do in a totally free world with access to unlimited money , to the extremes of divestiture at the other end . |
| 17 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 18 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 19 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 20 | No Bryony come back please because if you walk by yourself they 'll want to as well . |
| 21 | ‘ If we spend our time worrying about what they can do we 're as good as dead . ’ |
| 22 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 23 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 24 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 25 | He says although it is a small haul if they keep going at it they will get results . |
| 26 | By three both felt certain something was wrong and a nervous debate began about what they should do . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 28 | They should be encouraged to express any particular anxieties and queries until the nurse assesses from verbal and nonverbal interaction that they have a reasonable grasp of the staffing pattern as it applies to them and know from whom they can seek any further help . |
| 29 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 30 | Lenders ' policy varies on what they will allow remortgage funds to be used for . |