Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | He was extremely rude to a lot of people , some of whom vowed they would never speak to him again . |
2 | I know girls who vow they will never marry . |
3 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
4 | To find its value , attention is focused on the proportions who say they would break the law , ignoring proportions who say they would never break it ( figure 13.6 ) . |
5 | There are still those who say they ca n't get used to Citroen steering and that the suspension makes them sick ; there are many more who say getting used to any other sort of steering after driving a D- or C-series car is much the more difficult adaptation to make . |
6 | But it has upset some shopkeepers whose deliveries have been disrupted , and disabled drivers who say they ca n't get into town . |
7 | The firm has been put into liquidation by it 's owners , who say they ca n't afford to pay redundancy money . |
8 | The families of those shot at dawn , still hope that Ministers who say they wo n't rewrite history , may yet change their minds and give every victim of the great war , the same respect . |
9 | Among the 82 per cent who say they will definitely vote , the Conservative lead increases to two full points , with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 38 per cent . |
10 | Supporting her , other women who say they could also lose their homes because they 're separated from their RAF husbands . |
11 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
12 | I mean anyone who says they ca n't manage on what they get , er they ca n't feed the kids on what they get , probably go in the pubs five or si six nights a week , and smoke too much and but erm I mean these never go without a meal or anything like that . |
13 | Those who decided they could n't afford children struggled on . |
14 | At the same time , this screen , these games with and in words , can even now frighten off those readers who feel they must always know where they are when they read , or irritate those who see the games as a form of deliberate teasing or provocation . |
15 | If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume . |
16 | And that is completely against the wishes of both Maloney and even his own brother Dennis , who believe they could eventually get at least twice as much . |
17 | And that is completely against the wishes of both Frank Maloney and even his own brother Dennis , who believe they could eventually get at least twice as much . |
18 | The escape came as no surprise to the Acre state authorities , who claim they can not afford to maintain the prison . |
19 | A few years ago , the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors introduced and published this report particularly to assist those buyers who felt they could not afford the fees of a full Structural Survey . |
20 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
21 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
22 | Anyone who feels they could not volunteer to sit with patients could assist in other ways . |
23 | The apothecary had assured him that anyone who took them would gradually weaken and die as if from natural causes . |
24 | Those referred to at the beginning of this chapter , the dieters who think they ca n't shed weight on 1,000 calories a day , almost invariably belong to the can't-get-away-with-anything group and are not following the essential rules of calorie counting sufficiently strictly . |
25 | People who said they would n't borrow money were excluded from this study . |
26 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
27 | Very clear skin responses to the pheromone were recorded — even in those who said they could not detect the odour . |