Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | are plenty of others they 'll tell you on the course . |
| 2 | Ah they 'll show it on the news later on . |
| 3 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 4 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 5 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 6 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 7 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 8 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 9 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 10 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 11 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 12 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 13 | You started , I forget one , you know they 'd put them on the bo It was all board and slates , there were no books , you know , no papers . |
| 14 | Picking up their phones , they would thrust themselves on the punters , ramming stock , which was often of little value , down their throats . |
| 15 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 16 | But they will show you on the training course how they like that drawn out at the bottom . |
| 17 | They will tell you on the training course how to do that . |
| 18 | But they will tell you on the phone . |
| 19 | Oh they can sack you on the works . |
| 20 | The only erm exception and that 's not even in your price structure , is that if somebody says , Look is there any chance I can have colour , that 's the only place they can have it on the back copy back cover sorry . |
| 21 | and he convinced them he did n't need an operation , he was , he was cured , he 'd had his treatment , psy psychiatrist that seen him and he was all right thank you , he said , and they 're so clever they can convince anybody on the outside |
| 22 | There is , in fact , virtually no area at all where rabbits can not exist — they can support themselves on the edge of suburban Britain and maintain vast colonies on the most inhospitable heathland . |