Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [noun] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company produced a new rule book , instructing crews that when working over the section from Selby Road to West Croydon , they must avoid altercations with Corporation staff at all costs and behave as though they were employees of the Corporation themselves . |
| 2 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 3 | Yet in the 1960S some members of the credit industry had feared it would grind to a halt unless they could threaten promise-breakers with prison . |
| 4 | Mrs Amelia Bloomer , an American , whose eponymous , bifurcated undergarment was considered revolutionary in the early part of the last century , was passionately concerned with showing women that they could combine beauty with utility . |
| 5 | All they could tell Pétain with certainty at Dugny was the dreadful news that Douaumont had fallen . |
| 6 | They could see girls with pony tails and college scarves walking in easy friendship with boys along the damp slippery footpaths up towards Earlsfort Terrace . |
| 7 | But Eisenhower and Dulles continued to work on the assumption that they could buy time with diplomacy , and with this object in view — especially in face to face meetings with the British — they were reluctant to lean too heavily on their ally . |
| 8 | As Malcolm Johnson ( 1982 , p. 144 ) has suggested , they would prefer help with shopping so that they can prepare often more palatable meals of their choice and when they choose thus maximizing their independence and probably their health . |
| 9 | Because they can do things with language … |