Example sentences of "what they [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder what they 'll do if they find her up here ? ’ said Philip . |
| 2 | I do n't know what they 'll do to you either . |
| 3 | I want to see what they 'll do . |
| 4 | Now what they 'll do is they 'll have a look and then decide what to do . |
| 5 | From now on that 's what they 'll do . |
| 6 | We 'll get it cut off and put in the bin , that 's what they 'll do with it . |
| 7 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 8 | Anything , they 'll say , that 's what they 'll do . |
| 9 | That 's what they 'll do with the Radio News Network . |
| 10 | That 's what they 'll do with the Radio News Network . |
| 11 | And if they think that it suits them to shift a factory to the Philippines because there wo n't be an inspection there , that 's what they 'll do . |
| 12 | We do n't know what they 'll do so |
| 13 | Dammit , woman , if they 'd do something like this then there 's no knowing what they 'll do next ! ’ |
| 14 | And then they 'll see how many are sort of used a lot and percentage and that 's what they 'll do . |
| 15 | I wonder what they 'll do ? |
| 16 | Wonder what they 'll do |
| 17 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 18 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 19 | Alert them to the fact that we 're on to something , if they know we 've out-guessed them in their stupid game , then we do n't know what they might do . |
| 20 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 21 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 22 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 23 | well I mean you know , you know what children are , you never know what they might do |
| 24 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 25 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 26 | Caterers live in the real world , not for them exercise followed by exercise , because they do for real in peace what they would do in war and they would n't want to change that . |
| 27 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 28 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 29 | He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament . |
| 30 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |