Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terminals need to be tight if good contact is to be maintained , abut if they are very tight they may distort or even break if they are pulled up at one end to remove them . |
| 2 | To clear up any doubt , therefore , Notaries Public in Scotland are advised that while they may take and duly sign a solemn declaration of good repute , etc , they can not issue as such a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy . |
| 3 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 4 | If a predator is nosing close to them and they have not yet rolled tightly into a ball , they may bend and then suddenly straighten their legs , thrusting their spiny backs up into the killer 's sensitive nose . |
| 5 | I ca n't afford to replace them , so I was wondering if any of your readers would like to donate any Guitarist s they may have and no longer read . |
| 6 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | They must get as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in . |
| 8 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 9 | The report alleged that many scientists , engineers and other specialists were not given the opportunities they should have and too few civil servants were skilled in the techniques of modern management . |
| 10 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 11 | ‘ Absolutely no one — they 'll react as soon as they guess I 've left the country . |
| 12 | it gets a bit yeah , which is why I 'm gon na stick with two , I mean now they want to go and see Peter Pan next , when that comes down which will be what probably a month , about once every couple of months they 'll go or once a month |
| 13 | After the next kick off , Arse reckon they 'll try that again , only this time Lukic jumps at the ball on the edge of his area , makes a nerve-jangling hoke of it and nearly lets it get to an Arse player before scrabbling it away . |
| 14 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 15 | So it 's body language , tone , volume and voice , things like proximity the words they might use and also what 's the underlying attitude that fires the behaviour you 're looking at . |
| 16 | Teacher-in-role starts a class improvisation as if they were a local community in the mid-west hearing what a bright future they might have if only they would abandon their homes and move west . |
| 17 | They could do but then again |
| 18 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 19 | However , they could mature and considerably affect the role of the LEA by attracting funds from central government which are currently directed at further education through local authorities . |
| 20 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 21 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 22 | And out would come the people to the door , course they could n't see anything or anybody , back they 'd go and then you 'd do it again . |
| 23 | And oh the , the soldiers , the wounded soldiers , they used to come as well . |
| 24 | And the noise they would make as well — it was driving me crazy . |
| 25 | They would drink and then her jealousy , usually over his current leading lady whoever it might be , would come to the boil and Bogie would goad her until the bottles were whizzing past his head . |
| 26 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 27 | And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward . |
| 28 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 29 | Yes , yes they would go as well I 'm not |
| 30 | Just a few seconds , Sir Edmund , and the cord slips round their throat ; fuddled in their wits they would struggle but only briefly before lapsing into unconsciousness . |