Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I took three — I figured this would give me some insurance — then retired to a new seat to watch the board . |
| 2 | I knew that would take me longer |
| 3 | I knew that would please her , and it did . |
| 4 | I thought that would generate it automatically . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought that would bring you up . |
| 6 | I thought that might improve my life but on Monday Barron demonstrated that was not true , so I left . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I thought that might catch your attention . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I thought these would brighten your parlour a little . ’ |
| 9 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 10 | I thought this might amuse you . |
| 11 | " But I hear that you Europeans have very romantic ideas about the East , so I thought this might please you . " |
| 12 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
| 13 | They wanted to talk to you direct , but I said that would frighten you off . |
| 14 | I said that 'd do you good to be in business for a couple of years , that 'd get you sorted out ! |
| 15 | er , mm , how we got the days of the week because I said that could name it Monday because that was the day everybody got their money , got paid |
| 16 | I said that will teach her to what for for saying that ! |
| 17 | People on the parish only got ten shillings a week to live on and I often used to wonder how those who got drunk could afford it . |
| 18 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 19 | I 've turned it over and over in my mind , and it seems to me — I ne'er told the lad this , lovey — but it seems to me she waited till she 'd borne my Jake a son in his own image , as if she knew that 'd grieve him as nothing else could . |
| 20 | She felt this would make her ‘ singled out ’ , so she preferred to take on similar clerical work doing the accounts for her father 's farming business . |
| 21 | She said it 'll just , she said that 'd , she said that 'd straighten it , yeah . |
| 22 | She hoped this would make them ‘ more visible and safer ’ . |
| 23 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 24 | I thought they might give us badges to wear with our names on , like at conferences ; but I suppose they thought this would imply we were n't even capable of uttering our own names . |
| 25 | Knowing a little of his circumstances by this time — at any rate , I knew what his job was — I asked him if he realised this would involve him in considerable expense . |
| 26 | ‘ He said he reckoned that would stop you . ’ |
| 27 | For who could imagine that an early nineteenth-century Zuwayi , involved in a dispute with his brothers , or cousins or remoter kinsmen , would refrain from applying to Turkish authorities if he thought that might help him win ? |
| 28 | He thought these would help him to find his way back to Fablan Fawr . |
| 29 | He felt this would keep my scientific options open . |
| 30 | The golden fillet and the richness of his dress and his harness were all he carried that would identify him , for his banner was on the Forth and his pennant had long since gone . |