Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] them [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 2 | It should also remind them that present relationships of power and authority were evolved to reflect a diffused distribution of decision-making and an imprecise definition of curriculum . |
| 3 | I 'll just give them all a little bit of a massage , shall I ? ’ |
| 4 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 5 | You could not help them all . |
| 6 | Then you could just pinpoint them all |
| 7 | You 'd nearly know them all in your particular patch . |
| 8 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 9 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 10 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 11 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 12 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 13 | I could n't fit them all in . |
| 14 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 15 | I do n't know how many rooms the Star Zoo had ; I could n't count them all . |
| 16 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 17 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 18 | In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners . |
| 19 | I could n't get them any closer . |
| 20 | The arguments could be developed in several quite different forms , and we need not list them all . |
| 21 | Again you need n't ask them all that erm if Mr challenges . |
| 22 | Even , let's even make them all the age . |
| 23 | Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all , so that the legions had to make various other encampments , scattered wherever there was suitable ground . |
| 24 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 25 | And of course the night of the Gathering Ball it was just packed tight with people , hardly the school would hardly hold them all . |
| 26 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 27 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 28 | If Mrs Maybury would n't tell them any more , what could she do ? |
| 29 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 30 | Well they would n't cover them all but erm I see what you 're getting at . |