Example sentences of "they [verb] [conj] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men took , grave risks in the roles they adopted and could well have been attacked had their disguises been broken by the people they lived with . |
| 2 | The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out . |
| 3 | Rose petals are too strong ; they curl and will not stick onto the clay . |
| 4 | In so far as the historic cost pricing rules applied , the large consumers were subsidised like others initially , but , by the mid-1950s , their prices probably reflected long-run costs fairly accurately ( though they correctly , if somewhat ineffectively , complained about the continuing subsidy to the domestic consumer , which they suspected but could not prove ) . |
| 5 | In Re Peachdart ( 1983 Ch.D. ) the sellers of leather which the buyers then made into handbags could reserve title in the leather which they supplied but could not reserve title in the handbags which were newly created goods . |