Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray . |
| 2 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 3 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 4 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 5 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 6 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 7 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 8 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 9 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 10 | Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved . |
| 11 | As for the library , the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance . |
| 12 | Apart from the household staffs , many of them must have stayed on since it was the houses themselves that were dissolved , not their economic base , the estates . |
| 13 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 14 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 15 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 16 | The law sees the case as no different in principle from dealing with a murder in a street by prosecuting everyone who lives in that street , on the basis that one of them must have done it . |
| 17 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 18 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 19 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 20 | Many of them must have died in infancy and childhood , but we have no data on deaths before 1951 . |
| 21 | Harriet Schleifer is a vigorous employer of selected horror stories : ‘ Thousands of animals are assembled in a single location , close to a building that all of them must enter to die . |
| 22 | WHEN military dictators fall , the democrats who follow them must try to restore the rule of law , as well as rule by the majority . |
| 23 | At the end Christopher took matters in hand and commanded Francis to instruct his guests that some of them must volunteer to wash up . |
| 24 | INTRUSION INTO GRIEF Newspapers and journalists serving them should avoid intruding into personal grief except where this is justified in the public interest . |
| 25 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 26 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
| 27 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 28 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 29 | Either way , it would damage the walls , and Astorre and Pesaro between them might manage to scale them . |
| 30 | about , so I 'm sure some of them might want washing |