Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 2 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 3 | They must lie up in the caves , if we do send refugees here , and in the pinewoods and the tall juniper — they will do even in the winter . |
| 4 | ‘ No , they 'll end up in the pawnshop , ’ I sobbed . |
| 5 | CUD ARE inclined to assign their ‘ terminally wacky ’ tag to their irreverent cover version of Hot Chocolate 's ‘ You Sexy Thing ’ , but Mike Dunphy is certain they 'll win through in the end . |
| 6 | CUD ARE inclined to assign their ‘ terminally wacky ’ tag to their irreverent cover version of Hot Chocolate 's ‘ You Sexy Thing ’ , but Mike Dunphy is certain they 'll win through in the end . |
| 7 | Otherwise they might end up in the sea , which neither of them wanted . |
| 8 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 9 | They would take off in the event of a German cut , which would make lower UK rates more likely . |
| 10 | I never actually met him , but sometimes they would stretch out in the garden on warm days . |
| 11 | It 's almost equally inevitable that they will go down in the low income bracket . |
| 12 | Partners , particularly in the smaller of the merging firms , often fear that they will lose out in the merger — even to the extent of having to leave the merged firm . |
| 13 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 14 | I ca n't help feeling that some women would prefer a doll than a child , something they can put back in the box when they 're tired of it . |