Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 2 | Where competing firms are small they may wish not only to help regulate competition in the product market by joining together , but also to protect themselves against a marked inequality in bargaining power , since they are too small to be able to deal effectively with the trade unions unaided . |
| 3 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 4 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 5 | Stu , they 'll go down now look , you watch ! |
| 6 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 7 | You see As I said , they might have just actually cut off their nose to spite their face . |
| 8 | Back on the veranda , the chairs were still empty , but before they could sit down there came the sound of footsteps and Faye Hamilton came around the corner of the house . |
| 9 | We keep the trees erm they 're on about the trees are mature well my suggestion is there 's a lot of councillors that are very mature and really they could do far better getting eleven spindly new younger councillors to make these decisions on behalf of all the public tax payers in Nottingham . |
| 10 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 11 | Yet they could wait no longer to tackle Paris . |
| 12 | The old coppers who I knew — they used to hit hard enough to stun them , as hard as a butcher hits a cow before he kills it . |
| 13 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 14 | They would do much better to rely just on their three selves . |
| 15 | She says they were just hoping they would go away without doing anything stupid . |
| 16 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 17 | After this break , they would go out again to help with the evening tasks amongst the stock . |
| 18 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 19 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 20 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |
| 21 | The evidence that they can go tragically wrong came in Liverpool crown court this week when two teenagers were jailed for manslaughter . |