Example sentences of "they [verb] it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 2 | Yet they concede it would also be more complex and bureaucratic , and not really a runner until general taxation is more widely perceived as unable to deliver adequate funding . |
| 3 | I understand she told John the same story before she promised to marry him , then they agreed it should never be mentioned again . |
| 4 | But they vow it wo n't put them off policing . |
| 5 | And they say it 'll ultimately be cleaner . |
| 6 | They say it would n't be necessary at all if farmers used less chemical fertilisers on their land . |
| 7 | But they say it would n't be safe . |
| 8 | They say it wo n't take you long ! |
| 9 | They say it should n't be neccessary for prisoners to have to be housed in rundown jails like Oxford . |
| 10 | Critics say the resources wo n't stretch , and they say it will inevitably mean higher council tax bills . |
| 11 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 12 | But they hope it wo n't take too long or they 'll be rocking around the grandfather clock . |
| 13 | And when they start on about ‘ beam me up Scottie ’ they hope it will really take them out of this world . |
| 14 | If things were as they seemed it would n't matter . |
| 15 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 16 | But they do that , they reckon it wo n't take long . |
| 17 | They want to reintroduce the bill President Bush vetoed last year ; they claim it will merely allow blacks to sue those who discriminate against them . |
| 18 | Although many people had no clear idea of what level of employment was ‘ full ’ , none the less they felt it would not be the level of employment of the '20s or '30s . |
| 19 | But at least , they assured one another , this time they knew it would n't be some old alcoholic who would ‘ waste ’ all of their time in the Coronary Care Unit . |
| 20 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 21 | Whether the alternative candidates confuse the situation more often than they aid it can only be found from adequate testing of the system . |
| 22 | They said it would n't matter if he were gay . |
| 23 | At first they said it would n't be necessary to go to Camelford , then they said it would . |
| 24 | They said it would n't take long . ’ |
| 25 | and the they th , th , th , it nearly , they said it would nearly bankrupt two or three these are |
| 26 | The case did n't come up and by two in the afternoon , they said it would probably be tomorrow . |
| 27 | ‘ No , no … they said it might later , but … ’ |
| 28 | " Alligator " pulls it off They said it could n't be done . |
| 29 | They said it could never happen , but in an act many will regard as nothing short of vandalism , an outdoor centre has negotiated privately with the owners of Brock Holes quarry in the Peak to place up to 50 bolts to secure a rope handrail across the rock . |
| 30 | Though they swear it will just block absolutely everything . |