Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 2 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around . |
| 4 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 5 | No matter about the slump in the property market , nor that there does n't seem to be any money about : they 'll come running for these . |
| 6 | Thorfinn said , ‘ If the landings take place on the north side , they 'll have to look for more boats upriver and get themselves across till we can come . ’ |
| 7 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 8 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 9 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , originally they 'd have ducked for three |
| 11 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 12 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 13 | ‘ If the museum had n't offered an opportunity , they would have looked for another . ’ |
| 14 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 15 | She says that they all thought they would have to look for other jobs . |
| 16 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 17 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 18 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 19 | As we have seen , the establishment of NAB , with its very strong representation from the local authorities , creates a new environment for the polytechnics , and the colleges and institutes of higher education , to which they will have to adjust for some years to come . |
| 20 | Small groups , say three or four , agree among then , selves that they will try to cover for each other when one of the group has a problem . |
| 21 | When we get to 12 o'clock , some of them will have waited for three hours . |