Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 2 | If Jake found out he would have her guts for garters ! |
| 3 | erm , on the understanding that er , if a passage came up I would leave |
| 4 | The ceiling of the hall was also the roof of the building , and when Alexei looked up he could see the rafters , black with age , the heads of brass nails glittering across them . |
| 5 | And , needing desperately to defend her grandfather , she added weakly , ‘ Knowing he was too old for her , knowing that when the child grew up it would need a younger father … ’ |
| 6 | It 's very good to compare how people see you , because if for example , your score came out we 'll say at a hundred but you work mainly with adapters , the innovators who were up here , they 're going to think that you 're an adapter . |
| 7 | When team came out they 'd kick a load a footballsinto crowd . |
| 8 | If war broke out he 'd have to join his father 's regiment , but he was n't going to tell her that . |
| 9 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 10 | Just when she thought she had Nathan Bryce weighed up he would reveal another totally unexpected side to his character . |
| 11 | ‘ I talked to him a couple of hours ago and he said that as soon as things quietened down he 'd get as much down on paper as he could remember . |
| 12 | Maybe if things worked out he 'd start that up again . |
| 13 | His breath came short and as his head went under he could hear a faint grating of " gravel along the bottom . |
| 14 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 15 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 16 | One day , a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily . |
| 17 | Ace turned up you 'd have got the run four turns up you get your runs . |
| 18 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 19 | Erm on the supplementary paper sent round you will see at I think it 's page one and two , a letter received from the Carters Mead Resident 's Association erm I hope you 've all had a chance to read that as it was circulated to members in advance . |
| 20 | and also when girls moved in I would visit them in the flats |
| 21 | When your turn came round you 'd take off and dive , |
| 22 | So if you got ta have someone on a skiing accident they 've got ta be helicopter lifted off you 'll end up with thousand , four hundred thousand |
| 23 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 24 | Just as the moonlight broke through I could distinguish , about 50 yards ahead of me , the edge of the ski-jump . |
| 25 | ‘ The Dark Lords fought over who should have the chaining of him . ’ |
| 26 | If his Mum and Dad found out they 'd kill him . |
| 27 | If Dalziel found out he 'd laugh for seven days . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State recognised that if a high proportion of the boroughs left the ILEA , then what remained would be unworkable , and he therefore decided that if eight or more of the thirteen boroughs opted out he would force the remainder to follow suit . |
| 29 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 30 | And , casting an eye towards the world championships in August , Backley insisted that if the injury hung around he would have no hesitation in pulling out of the year 's big event in Stuttgart to prevent further damage . |