Example sentences of "they [verb] they [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |
| 5 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 8 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 13 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 14 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 15 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 16 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops . |
| 20 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
| 21 | They know they wo n't get lucky so they come back later . |
| 22 | Rachel 's parents say they know they ca n't stop the programme but they 'll be switching it off . |
| 23 | One highly-paid aid official admitted : ‘ We are forcing poor people at gunpoint to grow a crop which they know they can not survive on . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 25 | As they bargain they can now stop the drama and turn ( out of role ) to their peers and ask for help . |
| 26 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 27 | They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted . |
| 28 | Strongly influenced by their worldwide sales to date of over 60 million ‘ Walkman ’ products , they believe they can similarly capture a huge mass market for personal , on-the-move , multimedia information and games . |
| 29 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 30 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |