Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 2 | So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state . |
| 3 | Things like that they ought to put you in a room together , you 'd be fine would n't you ! |
| 4 | They must squash them in the hand and just throw it in must n't they ? |
| 5 | NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral . |
| 6 | If the Greens ever form a government , they should use him in the commercials advocating population control . |
| 7 | ‘ People can either do the walk in one spell or a bit every weekend , though they should complete it in a 12-month period ’ said Bill . |
| 8 | You take one or two , having studied the collectors of the world , and the highly professional fences of the antique market , and place them where they 'll bring you in the best and safest return . |
| 9 | They 'll poke you in the eye |
| 10 | ‘ This scrumpy will be the death of you , Sooty , ’ he said seriously , ‘ they 'll find you in a ditch one night all blue in the face . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a danger they 'll develop it in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 12 | to remind somebody they 'll fill it in the accident |
| 13 | Like you say you 've got to watch them cos they 'll stab you in the back wo n't they ? |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll put me in a home for the elderly . |
| 15 | Try some of our treats — they 'll put you in a better mood without spoiling your figure |
| 16 | They might keep it in the garden and have it as bed and breakfast ! |
| 17 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Because the rope used to come down through here so they could ring it in the cloakroom . |
| 22 | They 'd put it in the boot of the car and she said chuck it ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 27 | They used to make like ornaments out of scrap things , you know oh they was alright , they , they used to bring them in a a lorry used to bring them er in a morning then collect them at night you know . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 30 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |