Example sentences of "so they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 2 | Transgressors would see the enormous snake bearing down on them , so they would break camp and attempt to hide in water holes or caverns . |
| 3 | They had been thrown together as strangers , and so they would remain . |
| 4 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 5 | Companies had to be exposed to the full rigour of the market — so they would feel the full impact of success and failure . |
| 6 | most people want a quick response , so they would want then , the police officers in the cars that can get there within half an hour , at the latest to deal with their parti , particular problem . |
| 7 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 8 | and they 're , obviously they would be , tend to be other children with mothers then so they would like perhaps a play facility there . |
| 9 | Endowment assigned to them , so they would see it , they would know it , they would check it and they 'd be in that position . |
| 10 | I mean , do you think that perhaps is , is more advanced than Plato , because Plato on this incredible myth of his of going on this journey where ordinary people 's view of the form was n't very good so they would come back in an inf perhaps in an inferior form , but I get the feeling that with we have the opportunity of seeing something that is going to improve us anyway , that we 've all got an equal chance of some kind of improvement . |
| 11 | Pilger and Hayling wrote a job description outlining the editor in chief 's total power over the editor , which was to be shown to applicants for the editor 's job so they would know the position . |
| 12 | Mr Porter had said if loyalists did so they would get no support from the House or the country . |
| 13 | If third-world countries could export more textiles , their need to sell their timber would be less desperate ; if Europe 's farmers were not protected , land values would be lower , so they would have less incentive to farm intensively . |
| 14 | Such a reformulated qualified defence would not encompass cases of excessive self-defence , since they may involve a genuine and unhurried misjudgment of the amount of force permissible , and so they would have to be the subject of a separate qualified defence . |
| 15 | To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend . |
| 16 | Those clamps had to be locked at the Air Force base where they were loaded So they would have to have a key there . |
| 17 | According to some criteria perhaps , but if so they would have to exclude from ‘ the political , considerations such as those described here . |
| 18 | Her acceleration took her towards these beams , so they would have less distance to travel than normal . |
| 19 | And so they would have done , but for the coming of Nicol . |
| 20 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 21 | Kuiken says that : " These animals are at the top of the food chain , so they would have the highest concentration of pollutants in their bodies . |
| 22 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 23 | Children can learn that food is available only at the table so they may manage a few minutes sitting down to eat and then get up and run around . |
| 24 | Right so they may think that , you know , they 're gon na be one of the lucky ones , presumably . |
| 25 | ‘ So they may see how you are . ’ |
| 26 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 27 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 28 | ‘ So they may have , Father , when those responsible could be named . |
| 29 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 30 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |