Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This motion also creates an opportunity for the union , our union , the members ' union , to encourage young members , members and branch activists to take on the role of branch administration officers within the regions we represent here today and gain experience in an area of trade union work that they thought might never have , have existed . |
| 2 | Mostly , though , Asians find the whole thing an embarrassing distraction that they wish would just go away . |
| 3 | Willy-nilly they are forced to concede that here is some fact or reality to which all else that they believe must necessarily conform . |
| 4 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 5 | And then the daft things they were up to : ordering booksellers to destroy their maps , and ordinary folk an' all , as if the Germans when they landed would n't know where they were going . |