Example sentences of "[verb] they they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |
| 2 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 3 | So they ca n't have any , if we beat them they ca n't have any excuses . |
| 4 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 5 | But if you can use them they will certainly overcome many of the built-in delays involved in getting your bills paid on time . |
| 6 | I 've told them that I 'm hoping to replace their old hard-hat helmets with this new scuba equipment , but they think I 'm joking when I tell them they wo n't have any hoses to the surface . " |
| 7 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can hardly sell someone a packet of cigarettes and then tell them they ca n't smoke . |
| 9 | Write your information on the back and tell them they can only eat the eggs after the instructions have been copied down . |
| 10 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 11 | You know they they wo n't bother with something else . |
| 12 | Tell 'em they ca n't get hold of me . |
| 13 | But Rufus tells them they should n't get within six feet of their prisoners , and they both hang their heads sideways like he was telling them how to open a can of beer . |
| 14 | ‘ If the girls do n't pick them they 'll just waste in the grass or go with the birds , ’ the mother said as amiably as she could . |
| 15 | The only problem was convincing them they could n't follow up with a New Year 's knees-up a week later . |
| 16 | We know a lot of people have pledged to fight a war against it , and other people keep telling them they ca n't succeed . |
| 17 | Has the man from British Rail ever wondered ? ; — Supermarket managers taking toddlers through the check out and telling them they ca n't have the sweets that are especially positioned within their grasp . |
| 18 | It is a strange reflection on the lack of modernity in British politics that it took a pillar of the old establishment to tell them they ca n't have both . |