Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like I said , nine out of ten if I touch my brakes they 'll drop back and if they do n't then there ai n't nothing I 'm gon na do that 's gon na make them drop back . |
| 2 | Well it , and I do n't think with the News of the World round their necks they can afford to start playing silly people . |
| 3 | Although they have been reluctant to disclose their plans they would like to tax people 's property and tax their income . |
| 4 | Three or four of them , aha , with their ponies they would leave in the night and go over the hill . |
| 5 | More recently the club has steered off course because of complicated rules over which riders they can use . |
| 6 | Early on the authorities responsible for displacing the people in the Uranus area realized that if the inhabitants of a particular street got warning of the intention to do away with their homes they might try to organize protests or even resistance . |
| 7 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 8 | But if he 's tied something to their tails they 'll run till they drop . ’ |
| 9 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 10 | This is particularly important , and I 'm now riding my own hobby horse , but in the area of science erm we have a situation that erm in most secondary schools choice has to be made at the age of thirteen , fourteen , by boys and girls as to which subjects they should take . |
| 11 | You can also record the letters they suggest , and talk about them afterwards , how likely they were , whether they were pure guesswork or genuine predictions , which words they may have had in mind , etc . |
| 12 | Most dogs live for about 10 years on average , and during their lives they will come into contact with possibly hundreds of people and other dogs , as well as other animals such as cats and horses . |
| 13 | He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to . |
| 14 | With cash in their pockets they could pay off their debts and plough money into their restructured estates . |
| 15 | Ruth felt sure that but for the presence of their parents they would have stuck out their tongues . |
| 16 | Publicity was given to academic investigations whilst journals and organizations attempted to direct film-going by informing potential audiences as to which films they should attend and which ignore . |
| 17 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 18 | However , if males differ in their quality , it could pay females to be choosy about which males they will mate with . |
| 19 | From now on with their problems they 'll have to cope |
| 20 | ( In fact , following the abortive takeover , GEC and Plessey announced in 1987 the formation of a joint company : GEC Plessey Telecommunications ( GPT ) to develop System X. ) The fear was that if the two companies , both minnows in the international market ( refer to Table 2.1 ) failed to pool their resources they would sink further down the list of world telecommunications manufacturers . |
| 21 | Companies can find it difficult to know which agencies they should approach and , according to Ms Gordon , often become frustrated with the agencies for sending along unsuitable applicants . |
| 22 | Think of a group of foreign language students ( either one you know or one defined by age , learning purpose , and situation ) and decide which terms they will find most useful . |
| 23 | Play can increase the extent to which people feel able to involve themselves with others and extend the parts of their personalities they can use . |
| 24 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 25 | I thought , ‘ this will make the carrying of the tea to the remaining resident members of my family an uncommonly pleasant event , because they will all smile upon me instead of producing the customary resentful grunt when I stir them from sleep , and they will say ‘ Good morning , dear husband/father ( as the case might be ) , and they will reach under their beds for the gift-wrapped goodies so lovingly prepared and concealed the night before , and handing me their tributes they will voice their gratitude to God that I have survived so far , and will express the pious hope that they may be able to repeat such sentiments on this same date for many a year to come . |
| 26 | Planning which behaviours they would like to see changed can be difficult when everything looks bad ( Birnbrauer 1978 ) . |
| 27 | To flap their wings they will need more than 1,000 square centimetres . |
| 28 | Workers do not reproduce , so to propagate their genes they must protect their nest , thus ensuring that the queen — their relative — can reproduce copiously . |
| 29 | Just a few seconds , Sir Edmund , and the cord slips round their throat ; fuddled in their wits they would struggle but only briefly before lapsing into unconsciousness . |
| 30 | Even though customers might not receive the allocation of shares requested , once their money was effectively in their hands they might decide to shop around rather than return to Nationwide . |