Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 67 ) I should like to see them dare say a word against me . |
| 2 | We are improving what the employment service has to offer in the new integrated offices , as all hon. Members who have been to see them will know . |
| 3 | Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone . |
| 4 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 5 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 6 | For the next sale , a wider range of firms will be eligible to establish shops and applicants using them will have preference in allocations if there is heavy demand . |
| 7 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food There is no point in producing a list of microwave ovens without giving the detailed instructions so that those using them can improve their performance . |
| 8 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 9 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 10 | There is a mistaken notion that if the five declared nuclear powers ( America , the Soviet Union , Britain , France and China ) gave up testing weapons , other countries now trying to acquire them would stop . |
| 11 | Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter . |
| 12 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 13 | These are often a combination of personal and peer-group interests ; and pursuing them can lead to the development of a wide range of knowledge and skills . |
| 14 | These are sentences such that everyone who understands them will agree on their truth value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 15 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |
| 16 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 17 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 18 | Failure to observe them may result in the withdrawal of occupational sick pay and/or statutory sick pay . |
| 19 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 20 | He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 . |
| 21 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 22 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 23 | As long as individuals are different and have personal aims , ambitions and needs they will seek to achieve those for themselves . |
| 24 | She raked round their rubbish heaps at night ; she stole from them — peats from the stacks outside their huts , oats gleaned at night from the fields where they drove her away by day , once a half-grown lamb with a broken leg , that she killed with her knife and carried furtively back to the hut , praying they 'd think an eagle or fox had taken it . |
| 25 | The greater part of the debate on part-time day continuation schools centred around what it was claimed they could achieve . |
| 26 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 27 | But if Labour do win they will make the usual hash of things and then the whole merry-go-round will begin again . |
| 28 | Though he declined to say who he thought would win tomorrow , one gets the impression that he will be in Scotland 's corner , remembering that if they do win they will head for Twickenham and possible Triple Crown glory . |
| 29 | Experts say chicanes do work but wrongly designed they can speed traffic up . |
| 30 | The forecasts for the rest of the year suggest they could level out slightly higher at 5.4 p.c. with companies in the south budgeting for awards of 5.7 p.c . |