Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , they say we must put this in all our newspapers . |
| 2 | ‘ They say they will set most of the passengers free when their brothers are on the plane . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They say it could come any time — calling up . ’ |
| 6 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 7 | They hope it will encourage more people to take up dance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | But he 's like , when they think they can get any little thing they can think of to wind each other up . |