Example sentences of "they [vb past] he [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 2 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 3 | They said he would then have to take his family to Switzerland . |
| 4 | When they said he could n't have a parrot he 'd said ‘ Well , mice , then , white ones , ’ but his Dad had said he could n't have them either . |
| 5 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |
| 6 | A teenager who refused to believe doctors when they said he 'd never walk again may be about to prove them wrong . |
| 7 | And against the odds : They said he 'd never walk … but he 's fighting . |
| 8 | Ah , in the end they fined him a lot of money , and they had him ca n't stop the public , you ca n't do that you ca n't . |
| 9 | Labour leaders were delighted with Major 's accession , because they suspected he would not have the nerve to ‘ cut and run ’ early . |