Example sentences of "they [verb] they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Medicine , a respected and lucrative profession in Germany as elsewhere , is the discipline that is most oversubscribed , and medical academics are forced to take on far more students than they feel they can reasonably teach . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | When they start to unpack , they find they ca n't get the cellar door open . |
| 39 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 40 | 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 ! |
| 41 | But the news leaked out and they decided they could n't wait . |
| 42 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 43 | They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company . |
| 44 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 45 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 46 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 47 | Although they knew they would never forget Jennie , the Girls wanted her to have a permanent memorial so they had a collection and made a most practical and fitting choice : a marble floor for the church of St Stephen on the Cliffs , Blackpool . |
| 48 | I do n't think there were many people in debt because they knew they could n't afford to go into debt you know . |
| 49 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 50 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 51 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 52 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 53 | ‘ If they knew they 'd never leave me in peace . |
| 54 | If they knew they 'd never try to find out why , but would drive her out there and then . |
| 55 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 56 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 57 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |
| 58 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |
| 59 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 60 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |