Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 2 | If reinsurers receive further adverse experience on political risk , they may withdraw their support for this class . |
| 3 | In doing so he emphasized that if leaders of society were to maintain the allegiance of the masses they must demonstrate their responsibility for them , sustaining the aristocratic tradition of obligation towards the poor . |
| 4 | And if you wanted ten rolls of wallpaper they 'd paper your room for five shillings . |
| 5 | I do n't ken why they used to blame my father for allowing them to stay , stay , and and er , och , you get a lot of animosity . |
| 6 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 7 | I wondered how they would arrange my visa for Riga , but I did n't ask . |
| 8 | Here , for example , is how Elena 's ancestors dealt with an enemy : ‘ They would eat his tongue for wisdom , his heart for courage , and for fertility make their women chew his genitals ’ ( not difficult to imagine who gets the worst of that deal ) . |
| 9 | They would take their chance for the sale price of $380 million . |
| 10 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 11 | They want food , and the only way they can express their desire for it is to cry . |