Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 2 | Well they must have been just well they must have I did n't see them |
| 3 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 4 | There is talk of setting up a ‘ proud to be perverted ’ pressure group along the lines of Act Up ) , ( perhaps they should call it Strapped Up ) , which will campaign around the issue of consent , the idea that whatever two adults agree to do in the privacy of their own homes is no concern of the courts . |
| 5 | In the end , I expect they 'll make her read the news . |
| 6 | I do n't know what they asked , I did n't get to talk to the boys … maybe they 'll think they filled each other in , I do n't know . |
| 7 | They 'll think I blurted everything out . |
| 8 | They 'll think I lost my key . |
| 9 | They 'll think he won because he 's forty years younger than you are . " |
| 10 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 11 | They 'll hear what happened . |
| 12 | They 'll wonder who went and got the fire engine wo n't they ? |
| 13 | They 'll say they 'll know she came from . |
| 14 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome , they 'll wish they 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome they 'll wish I 'd never been born , ’ said Masklin . |
| 16 | He suspected that they might think he had used the incident of the bad teeth and the convenience of a farming father to bolt from that tough and dirty job . |
| 17 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 18 | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day . |
| 19 | They might wish we had a |
| 20 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 21 | The completion of a great survey of landownership in 1725–38 paved the way for a high degree of equality in respect of taxation ; the nobility and clergy retained tax privileges only in respect of properties which they could prove they had held before 1584 . |
| 22 | ‘ They could see we knew all about mass appeal . ’ |
| 23 | Immediately , they could see what had happened . |
| 24 | They could see I loved it . |
| 25 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 26 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 27 | They 'd think we 'd had a quarrel . ’ |
| 28 | If I told them that , they 'd think I meant daydreaming . |
| 29 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 30 | The Aymaraians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |