Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 32 | Then they 'll take you to the station , they 'll watch you buy your ticket , and then you 'll get on the train and you 'll bloody well stay on it until you 're back where you belong . |
| 33 | What will happen is , at regular intervals they 'll take you off the ventilator inject you with the er antidote to the depolarizer and see if your muscles lock up . |
| 34 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 35 | And even now , as he never has time off for spending the twenty-something quid a week they 'll dish him for the one-hundred-and-twenty-hour stint he puts in most weeks , he could just afford a wife and kid . |
| 36 | to remind somebody they 'll fill it in the accident |
| 37 | Like you say you 've got to watch them cos they 'll stab you in the back wo n't they ? |
| 38 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 39 | If only Maxwell could be more … if only they could stay awake … if only Maxwell could be with her at three thirty in the afternoon , when they might do it like the old days … |
| 40 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 41 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |
| 42 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 43 | They might keep it in the garden and have it as bed and breakfast ! |
| 44 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 45 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 46 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 47 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 48 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 49 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 50 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 51 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 52 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 53 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 54 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 55 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 56 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 57 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 58 | I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital . |
| 59 | So that they could get it for the turn of the new leaf of the quarter . |
| 60 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |