Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them , and gain a sense of achievement and control by isolating parts and dealing with them thoroughly . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 3 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 4 | Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to . |
| 5 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 6 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 7 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 8 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 9 | The danger for Leeds was that as they began to over-extend themselves they would become exposed at the back , where they are at their weakest . |
| 10 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 11 | Spatial theories predict that , because only group fixed has the potential of forming a stable geometric representation of the landmarks ( that is , ‘ map ’ ) , only they will learn to search at the F+ location . |
| 12 | In the society they inhabit they will have to choose at the university level between physics and hi-tech ; philosophy and literature may be pursued only as hobbies . |