Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news . |
| 2 | Thirdly , they say we must put this in all our newspapers . |
| 3 | But they say they 'll think long and hard before they deciding whether or not to accept the offer . |
| 4 | ‘ They say they will set most of the passengers free when their brothers are on the plane . |
| 5 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 6 | They say it 'll do little to bring long-term trade to the city , and will only encourge tour operators to use Oxford as a picturesque bus-stop . |
| 7 | ‘ They say it could come any time — calling up . ’ |
| 8 | They say it will delay global warming due to the greenhouse effect for several years . |
| 9 | They say she will need medical help and counselling to overcome the tragedy . |
| 10 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 11 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 13 | If they know they can get special deals . |
| 14 | They know we must make sure that control of the world 's oil resources does not fall into his hands , only to finance further aggression . |
| 15 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 16 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 17 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 18 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 19 | Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better . |
| 20 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 21 | They think they can like social services . |
| 22 | But he 's like , when they think they can get any little thing they can think of to wind each other up . |
| 23 | Like the Masai , they think you can stay young by sleeping with young women . |
| 24 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |