Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | With computers they can do all kinds of breakdowns : what I did last week , last month , last year . |
| 2 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 3 | It might seem obvious that if weak points are going to evolve in the tails of lizards they would do so between the vertebrae . |
| 4 | So when they are doing a piece of work on the senses they would do this worksheet as part of that either as homework in the school library or in the local library , or as part of a classroom exercise with the teacher and the librarian present … |
| 5 | He expresses favouritism , not love , from one daughter to the next by the things they will do for him , a characteristic not correct in any parent . |
| 6 | Erm the things they will do for these new little things . |
| 7 | The great virtue or the part-time holding in times of industrial depression is that it leaves the unemployed with things they can do to help themselves . |
| 8 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 9 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 10 | Cos there are things they can do themselves . |
| 11 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 12 | All the loveliness , all the things they could do , on the shore , in the water , exploring the heathland , and they sit above the road breathing in fumes with a plastic bottle for a plaything . |
| 13 | There are lots of things they could do . |
| 14 | A smack may suppress unwanted behaviour but it wo n't indicate alternative actions to children — the things they should do . |
| 15 | If fast-food take-aways want to find their best prospects they can do a lot worse than identify areas which have a high proportion of ‘ households sharing access to a bath ’ . |
| 16 | If they took cheese slices they could do a cheese , toasted cheese sandwiches or |
| 17 | If the Labour Party , if the Labour Party want our money then we want some influence and we do n't , and we , and if they do n't want to represent the views of our members they can do without our money . |
| 18 | ‘ If people want to take drugs they will do so . |
| 19 | The jobs they can do are limited , and they arc thought to bc less intelligent and more easily pleased . |