Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 2 | They must squash them in the hand and just throw it in must n't they ? |
| 3 | Well hopefully they 'll pass them round the table . |
| 4 | In fact I 'm sure they 'll beat them at the Manor and go through to the next round where hopefully we can probably play one of the big teams like — Oh , Manchester United , Newcastle or probably — Oh , I do n't know |
| 5 | Erm but I 'm hoping they 'll put them on a , on the table when we sell them in here and there 's that 's the first thing that 'll hit them is the turned legs you see ? |
| 6 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 7 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And I 've no doubt they 'd kill them without a second 's thought if they no longer served a purpose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 15 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | stuff like that , and they used to make them through the winter and come up here in the summer and sell them . |
| 18 | They would offer them as a high reward investment ( playing down the risk ) with all the liquidity of shares , and with a potential to convert into shares perhaps on one specific day each year . |
| 19 | Mehu claimed : ‘ They would take them to a lake . |
| 20 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 21 | In America they would keep them in a home until they were old enough to go into a jail |
| 22 | Now how they 're gon na send them I do n't know , but I can assure you they will send them in a hurry . |
| 23 | They will put them in the gaol for that ! ’ |
| 24 | Erm and they will keep them in the archives and I suppose transcribe them or something of the sort . |
| 25 | The RUC are anxious to speak to the driver of a maroon Maestro car which was close to the murder scene yesterday morning , in order that they can eliminate them from the murder investigation . |
| 26 | ‘ We are putting paper chains on their arms ; they can break them with a gesture . ’ |
| 27 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |