Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 2 | Deane is evidently capable of playing football , they should give him more opportunity to do it . |
| 3 | Egypt 's nuclear power industry is still in the design phase , but according to Mr. Kandil , nuclear power was the only clean energy alternative for Egypt : ‘ If developed countries want to enjoy a good climate , they should give us these plants at lower cost . |
| 4 | it 's a terrible mistake just to say that the government 's fault and they should give us more money . |
| 5 | Look at the pictures on this page : they should give you some ideas , but you should also think of your own . |
| 6 | They should call him jammy man . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll give me fifty pence for that at the souvenir shop , ’ Adam said . |
| 8 | They 'll give you useful info on the other characters . |
| 9 | If you 'll stand in the I D parade for them tonight at seven o'clock they 'll give you ten pounds . |
| 10 | They 'll give you ten pounds , to call for an I D parade tonight . |
| 11 | you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you . |
| 12 | ‘ Crack that , son , and they 'll make you chief constable . ’ |
| 13 | The point is , they 'll report it one way or the other . |
| 14 | They 'll take you 250 miles further on to Madrid , then you catch a plane back . |
| 15 | But I expect they 'll charge him some time today . |
| 16 | Two-year-olds thrive on attention and they 'll get it any way they can — crying for no reason , breath-holding , tantrums and general naughtiness . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'll shoot you one day , mate , the way you badmouth them . |
| 18 | If two of the family are chatting about something special , perhaps they could do it another time or alternatively make absolutely sure that you know what it is all about . |
| 19 | Cos they could they could do it this year you know . |
| 20 | The conclusions are obvious enough : that there was a tendency among some Victorians to have fewer children where they could arrange it that way , and that improved medical care , hygiene , sanitation and living conditions generally were improving life-expectancy and helping to eradicate infant deaths . |
| 21 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 22 | They could offer him full board with a bedroom and sitting room on the ground floor for three pounds a week . |
| 23 | I then tried another shareware firm who said they could send me registered copies for £40.50 . |
| 24 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 25 | When Madeleine did not reply , he continued eagerly , ‘ They 'd give us m-married quarters , but if you d-did n't like them , we could rent a house — whatever t-took your fancy . ’ |
| 26 | But they were making an offer , if you brought your old machine in they 'd offer you thirty pound off . |
| 27 | Morris tonner from Cripps and er I said I 'd buy the lorry off 'em if they 'd find me some work . |
| 28 | I mean in in logs log tables they 'd write it this way . |
| 29 | I think they used to overlap them one edge did n't they ? |
| 30 | Well er , probably about er in them days they used to call them twelve score and then so it 'd be twelve , two 's or something that 's two hundred forty pounds I suppose like , you know and er , but most of the people er . |