Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As camouflage they must obtain local clothing . |
| 2 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 3 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
| 4 | But if you were arrested for murder they would have to be very careful not to blow their cover . |
| 5 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 6 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 7 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 8 | Cod separated the pair for fear they would reproduce , and eventually forced them to do battle with each other . |
| 9 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 10 | Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself . |
| 11 | On the streets , in meetings and in work , I began to dread women 's perceptiveness and intuition for fear they would penetrate my three-dimensional protection , silence , an accepted assumed heterosexuality and aloofness . |
| 12 | She appealed against the defendants being given bail for fear they would interfere with witnesses who could help police inquiries . |
| 13 | Seven of our Section were detached for a fortnight to make our creche , so each day after parade they would go off with a Corporal to hump sand , fill wheelbarrows with moss and look for things to add to the project . |
| 14 | It would provide the people of Scotland with at least the hope that after privatisation they will have decent bus services . |
| 15 | Mrs Johnson said : ‘ We left the bottle on a table in the communal lounge and whenever a resident had a pocketful of change they would put it in . |
| 16 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |
| 17 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 18 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 19 | With a bit of luck they 'll wipe each other off the face of Asia . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are looking for members of the Asian community who can provide memories of when they first came into the area , how they got employment , how the locals opened up to them , their first impressions of Britain and the problems of racism they may have encountered . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For that kind of penance they will pay £550 and know that the hard work is just a beginning . |
| 22 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 23 | 17.54 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a wider range of forms , including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , advertisements , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Through experience of a wider range of literature they should learn to produce stories which are more consciously crafted , for example , using some detail in the portrayal of characters or settings or with some attempt to introduce elements of suspense or surprise with a skilfully managed resolution . |
| 24 | Old Red being S.S.O. , and you 're being only a third-year , of course they 'll notice ! |
| 25 | The taxi-driver will probably remember picking you up , people on the train may have seen you … and of course they 'll question your friends . ’ |
| 26 | Erm some of the banks actually lay off the charges to some extent , but I think he might find that a bit expensive to run , erm and of course they 'll take their charges even if they do n't make a profit for you . |
| 27 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 28 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 29 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 30 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |