Example sentences of "[noun] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 2 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 3 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 4 | Some sufferers have been known to jog themselves literally to death , despite being told by doctors of the specific risks they would incur by taking further exercise . |
| 5 | If the symptoms are of the remedy they will disappear in a few days and no more medicine may be needed . |
| 6 | At first glance they may seem confining and restrictive , but more careful evaluation shows that the structure of laws enables us to live in a healthy and balanced way , in moderation and without excess . |
| 7 | The political spin-offs from crusading are therefore more difficult to calculate than at first glance they might appear . |
| 8 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 9 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 10 | They were both part of Bob Dylan 's backing band in the disastrous film Hearts Of Fire : Fred had to teach the songs they would mime to that day to Dylan each morning . |
| 11 | Ultimately , it does n't matter how well a band 's guitarist plays , if an act does n't have good songs they will go nowhere . |
| 12 | — The larynx becomes dry and they wake with spasms in the throat thinking they will choke . |
| 13 | The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part . |
| 14 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 15 | There 's nothing there at all so there 's no stock they can sell , they 've shut down I expect . |
| 16 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 17 | On the other side they would lay out a little town , using the river as a division . |
| 18 | For citizens , enterprises and state and non-state institutions of the other side they will create favourable frameworks for entrepreneurial and other economic activity … |
| 19 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 20 | And when they opened the Ark they should have discovered Moses in it but they did n't because it was and there we are . |
| 21 | If they were after foxes they would have either had several nets to cover all the holes or a dog such as a lurcher to chase after and catch the fox . |
| 22 | If the guest is settling the bill by credit card they can avail themselves of the express check-out service . |
| 23 | We need to analyse the interaction between electors , whose attitudes have already been influenced by a variety of considerations ( ranging from their own sense of both national and local political issues , down to whatever perception they might have concerning their need to accommodate themselves to their social superiors ) , and the party electioneers , who were determined to influence the electorate in whatever way they thought fit ( which invariably meant a combination of political propaganda and various forms of manipulation , bribery and intimidation ) . |
| 24 | Young girls would come to her to have their fortunes read , to see what sort of husbands they would get , the number of children they would have and so forth , all of which circumstance she would signify by movements of her hands and fingers . |
| 25 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 26 | On Tuesday they will tour the Palace of Westminster and lunch with the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 27 | There is no natural flint in Islay so from where did the inhabitants obtain the great quantity of nodules they would require from which to make their tools ? |
| 28 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 29 | If they want Second Division football they should support us now . |
| 30 | The first thing I never went to the doctor with when I , I tumbled off the wall down cut me head open and that 's the only , and then after I got used to playing football they must 've , have put a steel inset into your head the way I head that ball . |