Example sentences of "[noun sg] and they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 2 | She became involved with a married man , who eventually ended the affair — but ten years later , Jessica was still convinced that , one day , he would realise that he loved her , arrive at her door with a ring and they would live happily ever after . |
| 3 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 4 | Yeah , all I 've got to do then is send , send it in and I 'll phone them and say well can I cash it up and still on the club and they 'll say yes but I 'll have to get up and get round there tomorrow then |
| 5 | When they open an account they 'll receive a free account opening pack and , if they are over seven , they 'll also become members of the Barclays Supersavers Club and they 'll receive regular copies of the club magazine . |
| 6 | ‘ Get them out golfing and they 'll forget all their troubles ’ was his maxim . |
| 7 | These stress trajectories can be thought of , more or less , as strings under tension and they will try to straighten in much the same way . |
| 8 | Contact your local Trading Standards Department and they will enforce the Trades Description Act . |
| 9 | They see him as a possibility for the future and they would like to take a closer look at him . |
| 10 | it 's a terrible mistake just to say that the government 's fault and they should give us more money . |
| 11 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 12 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 13 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 14 | They should have penetrated his disguise and they should have alerted the Royal guards and the Fiana and every sorcerer in the Palace so that he could be driven out . |
| 15 | If they are wrong , then we are without guidance and they may leave us , which would be catastrophic . |
| 16 | It 's no crime and they 'd have known anyway , but you might as well hold on to your dignity if you can . |
| 17 | The head will chew them over , their parents will go mad , then when it 's all finished we 'll be back here next term and they 'll hate me worse than ever . ’ |
| 18 | They represent a racial minority , they inhabit a riot zone , they have a huge reserve of latent talent and they can shift records by the ton . |
| 19 | They must take action and they must feel free to contact us , feel free to put their point of view across to the headmaster and to ask for a psychologist 's report . |
| 20 | Glasgow City Brightsiders are the only one of the leading men 's sides in action and they can overtake Edinburgh Burger Kings at the top of the men 's first division if , as they should , they take care of the young Cumnock team at Cumnock Academy tomorrow . |
| 21 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 22 | ‘ Blyth are a quick , young side and they will make it very difficult for us , but we are all looking forward to the game , ’ said the Southport boss . |
| 23 | Reduce aid and they will grow more , goes the argument . |
| 24 | A car will follow you down in the ambulance and they 'll send a guard from Headquarters to stay with you once you get there . ’ |
| 25 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 26 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 27 | Julia Castillo , Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly remarked : " The majority " of Salvadorean women have not been supported by marriage and they must make enormous sacrifices ' ( San Salvador , April 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Is , is what you 're saying that , that the tax was on a , a kind of expected yield that cadres would , would , would go into a village and they would say look erm that is the normal yield for that bit of land . |
| 29 | A person Who has plenty of stamina will have a slower and more powerful heartbeat and they will cope more easily with prolonged or heavy exertion . |
| 30 | See see , folk like that , right , see when they come up , get somebody in the , in the playground and they can annoy them they keep bloody doing it ! |