Example sentences of "they [verb] you [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , ’ said Marian , smiling , ‘ it was the horses … their faces when they found you 'd cut loose the horses . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They say you 'll marry him before the end of the year , miss . ’ |
| 3 | They say you could borrow the Walkman ? |
| 4 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 5 | They say you can twist statistics to back up any viewpoint , but you can not argue with that record . |
| 6 | I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by . |
| 7 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 8 | But you will relate it , cos no matter what they say you will relate it . |
| 9 | But they say you must leave it running for two days . |
| 10 | And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er |
| 11 | They assume you will get help and advice from me . |
| 12 | If the house is rented or occupied by relatives other than your spouse or carer the rent they pay you could contribute towards any share of the costs you are required to pay . |
| 13 | No it 's not they reckon you should leave a two second gap if yo , if you 're travelling at thirty , forty miles an hour . |
| 14 | they reckon you could touch their beaks ! |
| 15 | When they collect you will get the 20 per cent or so balance still owing . |
| 16 | Perhaps that was what mothers meant when they insisted you should change your underwear daily for fear you should be run over . |
| 17 | Maybe they thought you 'd join them . |
| 18 | ‘ If they did you 'd hate her for what she did to Grandfather . ’ |
| 19 | Says Mandy Haines , 15 : ‘ I would like to be told what boys expect you to do and how they think you 'll behave when it comes to sex . |
| 20 | You 're not taken to the same wing because they think you might fight again . |
| 21 | Like the Masai , they think you can stay young by sleeping with young women . |
| 22 | But you know sleep escapes a young person , if one 's in their young twenties and they think you can go to bed at er half past two in the afternoon and have an hour or two . |
| 23 | yeah , she maybe does , but I think she 's trying to , to try and promote the fact that aids patients are harmless , because a lot of aids patients are very isolated , people do n't want to know them , they think you can catch it through shaking hands , drinking out the same cup and all that , and I think she 's trying to prove that look I 'm alright , so should you be , but she does go a bit over the top |
| 24 | someone going on about how they think you should understand it . |
| 25 | It 's so funny it 's real entertainment someone at the Tate said er , you know when I told them I bought the bird bath , they said you will have lots of pleasure with that and I think I have . |
| 26 | If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding . |
| 27 | He asked the masters and they said you can come for an interview . |
| 28 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 29 | They said you 'd come back for your horse , and my father promised to send them word . ’ |
| 30 | Why did they say you would tell me about Van Gogh ? " |