Example sentences of "felt they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company .
2 It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services .
3 The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges .
4 But they felt they could n't do it .
5 But they obviously felt they could n't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people , mainly on Sky TV , had already judged the issue .
6 Presumably felt they could n't afford
7 The Fuller family 's neighbours felt they could n't let such an auspicious occasion pass without applying a little bunting to the brickwork .
8 She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress .
9 Father Morrow said magistrates told him they had studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Tony and felt they could not serve the summons .
10 The Americans felt they could not stand by and let Europe fall into economic chaos ; their own economy would also suffer .
11 So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority .
12 A few years ago , the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors introduced and published this report particularly to assist those buyers who felt they could not afford the fees of a full Structural Survey .
13 If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that .
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