Example sentences of "them and they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you fiddle too much you will undoubtedly upset them and they may turn on each other . |
| 2 | Ask them and they 'll say the world has gone mad . |
| 3 | Th they sometimes brought their own two little boys with them and they would make the the bands to cut them bands to do the sheaves , so . |
| 4 | I think you children were a delight to them and they would gather round the swimming pool and cheer you on with swimming lessons . |
| 5 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 6 | When they were wet from rain or swimming in the oceans , the light might catch on some deep oil in them and they would glimmer shadowy rainbows of colour , like oil spills on a road . |
| 7 | They may reject you and isolate you because you are different from them and they would like to be like you . |
| 8 | If they could fly straight away their parents would never find them and they would starve ? |
| 9 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 10 | Public relations departments in large organisations have a number of channels open to them and they should utilise a mixture of these to disseminate information — notice boards , in-house journals , videos , briefings and meetings . |
| 11 | But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass . |
| 12 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 13 | There in the darkness , the chicks can see very little of their parents , but they can hear them and they will follow the sound that they first hear during that crucial imprinting period for the rest of their duckling days . |
| 14 | However , whistling and swearing offends them and they will shower the guilty person with pebbles and gravel until he stops . |
| 15 | No harm will come to them and they will recommence feeding as the temperature begins to fall . |
| 16 | The Nylabone people say that if your mum is still concerned she can write to them and they will put her mind at rest . |
| 17 | and they 'll soon be gone and one thing which annoyed me er a Scotsman or a Welshman or an Irishman can go on television they 'll accept them and they can talk their |
| 18 | With me the choirs never use music , which has the double effect : their eyes are not fixed on the page in front of them and they can communicate directly with me . |
| 19 | He was beckoning to them and they could see that the group was preparing to move off . |
| 20 | A physiotherapist said that she could not recall any aggravation at any level , and an occupational therapist said : ‘ It did n't matter what problems I had , I just had to go to them and they 'd say ‘ OK , there 's a way round it . ’ ’ |
| 21 | Then fate would catch up with them and they 'd become bankrupt alcoholics . |
| 22 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 23 | If I had an address I 'd be happier , I 'd write to them and they 'd write to me . |