Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heading in the manuscript appears to tally with a stage direction in the word-book , ‘ A Chinese Man and Woman dance ’ , printed between the final verse and chorus ‘ They shall be as happy as they 're fair ’ But this direction means merely that the Chinese Man and Woman are to dance to the music of the verse , just as the next printed stage direction , ‘ All the Dancers join in it ’ , which follows the words of the final chorus , means that all of them should dance to its music . |
| 2 | She agreed to try a behaviour chart and identified that each of them should sit in their own chairs , eat their own food quietly , and not interfere with each other . |
| 3 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 4 | If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions . |
| 5 | to understand this so they may go to their immediate selfish interest rather than their long-term interest . |
| 6 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 7 | if solvent misusers become unconscious they may choke on their own vomit |
| 8 | There may be only a few , or they may twinkle in their hundreds like some strange city skyline and , most disconcerting of all , a double set of lights may suddenly float up and down like a luminescent yo-yo . |
| 9 | The theory provides the younger relative with a convenient explanation for any guilt they may feel about their role with ageing relatives . |
| 10 | By reading a wide range of literature , children become aware of new forms of discourse and modes of expression with which they may experiment in their own writing . |
| 11 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 12 | The provincial presses , though they may lag behind their metropolitan brothers in equipment and technique , have a great story to tell . |
| 13 | Where they may differ from their informal counterparts is in the amount of time spent on such studies or on the message given to the children and their parents that such activities are incidental to ‘ real ’ learning ( the mastery of arithmetical or grammatical skills ) . |
| 14 | Or they may appeal to our feelings — advertisements that evoke nostalgia , or involve appealing children and animals ; that make us laugh or rely on sex appeal , are all playing on our emotions to persuade us to buy . |
| 15 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
| 16 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 17 | Apart from the obvious poisons , cats are susceptible to a number of substances they may encounter in their daily lives . |
| 18 | They may work through their own TNCs , which may be in a position to challenge other TNCs anywhere in the world , or as officials , or as independent professionals . |
| 19 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 20 | German prosecutors earlier said they may ask for his extradition . |
| 21 | We ask that they may know of your daily provision of all kinds of needs , and especially for Rob 's studies , that he may be able to learn and think with Your mind at all times . |
| 22 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 23 | Workers are only too aware that Ford of Britain 's pre-tax profits doubled to more than £673m in the last financial year and they feel they ought to share in its success . |
| 24 | They ought to look in their own back yard first ! ! ! ! ! |
| 25 | Health service tells patients family they must pay for her own life support equipment . |
| 26 | May I particularly welcome my right hon. Friend 's announcement that he has agreed to President Yeltsin 's request to send advisers to help the Russians with the traumatic changes that they must make to their armed forces as a result of the change in the situation ? |
| 27 | They must check for your name in the book . " |
| 28 | However , to safeguard the tribal inheritance , they must marry within their own tribe ( see chapter 36 ) . |
| 29 | On the other hand , nourished on the synthdiet they must exchange for their impure ingots , maybe the tribes were breeding fast enough to fend off being buried alive in swarf and shavings and other detritus . |
| 30 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self-discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |