Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Many Yugoslav army officers had asked how they could put themselves at the disposal of the government , he said . |
| 62 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 63 | On 28 May , the DIA video gear arrived from Lebanon , and on the 29th , he flew home alone with it , having been assured that Mary-Claude and Sarah would be protected until such time as they could join him in the States with Mary-Claude 's sister Giselle . |
| 64 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 65 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 66 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 67 | ‘ Because the rope used to come down through here so they could ring it in the cloakroom . |
| 68 | So we left there that Wednesday morning and they said they 'd give us until the Friday to think about it . |
| 69 | If you repaid the advance , I 'm sure they 'd let you off the hook . ’ |
| 70 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 71 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 72 | You started , I forget one , you know they 'd put them on the bo It was all board and slates , there were no books , you know , no papers . |
| 73 | They 'd put it in the boot of the car and she said chuck it ! |
| 74 | I reasoned like you , my lord , that they 'd rid themselves of the load , it would only slow them down . |
| 75 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 76 | Later , when their work had become completely Cubist , Picasso and Braque devised a more elaborate and sophisticated method of dealing with solid forms but the means which they used to differentiate between the parts of planes or an object or figure and the devices they used to reconcile it to the picture plane were , it will be seen , not unlike those which Picasso used so boldly here . |
| 77 | Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top , |
| 78 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 79 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 80 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 81 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 82 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 83 | And when I come back , she had the poker in the fire : they used to put it into the stout . ’ |
| 84 | Yes that used to but sometimes they used to bring it up the river and they use a lot the ballast we er did dredge for erm , for the first part of Cliff Quay , used it when they built that . |
| 85 | And you used to have a little ticket , with the days on , and they used to punch it with the old , you remember the old punching machines , do n't you ? |
| 86 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |
| 87 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 88 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |
| 89 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 90 | They used to stack it on the quay . |