Example sentences of "they [verb] they [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 6 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 11 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 12 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 13 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 14 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They know they wo n't get lucky so they come back later . |
| 18 | Rachel 's parents say they know they ca n't stop the programme but they 'll be switching it off . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |
| 23 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 24 | ‘ If they wish to have their children privately educated and they feel they ca n't afford it , when the time comes they can talk to the benevolent fund , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In the US , for instance , the cost of supporting a child to the age of 18 — excluding college fees — is over $100,000 and 50% of American women using contraception are doing so because they feel they ca n't afford another child . |
| 26 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 27 | Career women , especially those who are more successful than their partners , are sometimes weary because they feel they can not escape from competitiveness and aggression . |
| 28 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 29 | When they start to unpack , they find they ca n't get the cellar door open . |
| 30 | They decided they could n't do much about the rape , but they dealt with the wife beating by publicly humiliating and parading the culprits ! |