Example sentences of "thing they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warned : ‘ Once somebody gets hooked on this sort of thing they may step it up . |
| 2 | ‘ One other thing they 'll want to know is the real reason why Sara was in father 's office at just after six this morning . ’ |
| 3 | I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next . |
| 4 | ‘ One thing they 'll think is really weird . |
| 5 | The only thing they 'll understand are people out on the streets demonstrating . |
| 6 | That 's something that erm a great many of the multinationals will er try to get round very er and the other , other thing they 'll have to pay fair price which reflects the cost of production and the quality of the product , plus a margin for investment and development . |
| 7 | Strange thing they 'll have two and three . |
| 8 | The last thing they would expect was the obvious , it was a certain way to catch them flat-footed . |
| 9 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 10 | Just when you started to think you had finally got a grip on this thing they would throw in the Bombay Khojas and you were right back where you started . |
| 11 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 12 | But it 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 14 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 15 | I mean the next thing they 'd want to do is to come in and do in this kitchen before you do any cooking for yourself |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the last thing they 'd expect , you know . |
| 17 | ‘ The first thing they 'd look at , ’ Billy countered , ‘ is a woman drivin' my auld rattlebones of a car ! |
| 18 | I mean in summary , I , I 'd say that this is the sort of thing they 'd look for in a , in a portfolio . |
| 19 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 20 | He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast . |
| 21 | It is one more thing they must learn to judge . |
| 22 | The problem is that they are harder to measure and therefore justify , and that 's why hard-nosed finance people refuse to spend on environment and try to cut back training when it 's the last thing they should do . |
| 23 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 24 | That never the full answer because pushing people into that is one thing they should have . |
| 25 | But he 's like , when they think they can get any little thing they can think of to wind each other up . |
| 26 | ‘ He has a super , laid-back attitude — if anyone kicks him , it 's the worst thing they can do . |
| 27 | But actually there is one important thing they can do which would certainly improve world economic prospects : resist the temptation to put up new protectionist barriers , and push ahead with a speedy conclusion of the Uruguay round of trade talks . |
| 28 | That 's the only thing they can do . |
| 29 | Well , that 's a practical thing they can do , is n't it . |
| 30 | Maybe they have n't er been able to er find ways of talking to each other about those difficult things , and maybe they 've , they 've built up lots and lots of assumptions and resentments and disappointment , and they do n't know how to handle it , and they feel that the only thing they can do is to get out . |