Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] they [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 2 | The French lawyers are waiting there now , and I 'd like them to hear the C.O. actually make the charge . ’ |
| 3 | If , as my hon. Friend suggests , there is cheaper electricity to be obtained from coal-fired power stations than from gas-fired power stations , I would expect them to use the electricity from coal-fired stations , in accordance with their licence obligations . |
| 4 | ‘ I would expect them to do the honourable thing and give me my job back . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If anybody knows anything about what might have happened to her I would beg them to contact the police and tell them anything that might help . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Schools and colleges are now responsible for their own budgets and I would encourage them to grasp the opportunity to make further inroads into energy wastage by investing savings in energy efficiency projects , ’ said the minister . |
| 7 | It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time . |
| 8 | You could use them to study the language and techniques of advertising . |
| 9 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
| 10 | Mark an ‘ E ’ to indicate those issues which you think demand equal involvement and use your partner 's initials to indicate areas where you would expect them to have the major input . |
| 11 | When it comes to cutting finishing panels above or to the side of your frame to fill any gaps , you will want them to follow the line of the wall or ceiling exactly , however uneven that might be . |
| 12 | We ask that You will help them to face the changes in their home , their way of life , and their surroundings . |
| 13 | Well they want , they want divorce and they 'd rather custody of the children and if they 'll some but she can allow them to take the children away cos the well the media coverage , they 've obviously got they have a law . |
| 14 | You can tell them to fire the building and they 'll do it and watch themselves burn . |
| 15 | You can buy them to do the lattice somebody told me . |
| 16 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |
| 17 | We thought we should force them to bring the price down . |
| 18 | No , we 'll get them to light the fire . |
| 19 | I suppose we could fix them to read the same , but if we did that , ma'am , we would n't need two clocks , and it 'd be a shame to part with either of them ! ’ |
| 20 | If someone would come he could ask them to check the brake on the van . |
| 21 | He wondered if he could get them to pay the mortgage . |
| 22 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 23 | If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it . |
| 24 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 25 | The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , told the jury he will direct them to acquit the man of rape and administering poison with intent to endanger life following submissions by the defence . |