Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 2 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
| 3 | However repellent I may happen to find them . ’ |
| 4 | I may have to save them . |
| 5 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 6 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 7 | I ought to start , really really and truly I ought to start buying them in now in sort of double , double packs , you know , get two cos they 're expensive to buy . |
| 8 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 9 | I must go to join them . ’ |
| 10 | The wolves were real enough , although there are times when I think I must have imagined them . |
| 11 | So I must have wanted them , you see . |
| 12 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 13 | I must have hurt them , I reckon . |
| 14 | I must have scared them . |
| 15 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 16 | I must have threw them away again ! |
| 17 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 18 | ‘ I should love to see them sometime , ’ said Charles , ‘ but I wonder if I might sit down for a little ? |
| 19 | I should 've tested them . ’ |
| 20 | Cos Ken said , first of all he could n't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should 've bought them when I saw them , nine ninety nine . |
| 21 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 22 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 23 | ‘ I should like to see them , please . ’ |
| 24 | ( 67 ) I should like to see them dare say a word against me . |
| 25 | ‘ I should like to ask them . |
| 26 | When I get them , I should like to send them to you to copy ’ . ) |
| 27 | I should have said they 're from Gianni Versace ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 29 | ‘ I should have destroyed them , ’ said Sheldukher . |
| 30 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |