Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The POA says previous appeals for extra staff have fallen on deaf ears ; if the same happens this time , they fear they 'll soon have a riot on their hands .
2 Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies .
3 Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image .
4 They sell out you wo n't believe this they sell you wo n't believe this , they sell
5 ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’
6 But they vow it wo n't put them off policing .
7 Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these .
8 ‘ We knew that despite what they promised we would n't get any real control , ’ comments Gilbert Hernandez .
9 They say they wo n't leave without a fight .
10 And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it .
11 They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs .
12 They say they wo n't believe that .
13 Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) .
14 I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it …
15 because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ?
16 And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it .
17 I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it !
18 They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over .
19 They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it .
20 They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health .
21 The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m .
22 Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse .
23 They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops .
24 One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it !
25 They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof .
26 They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle
27 They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings .
28 They say you should n't do that .
29 They say it wo n't take you long !
30 Critics say the resources wo n't stretch , and they say it will inevitably mean higher council tax bills .
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