Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 2 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 4 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 5 | You know when things got fresh she 'd perhaps have enough for all week or till you went on the Tuesday , you see , yeah . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes , if he got bored he would just come up and start reciting . |
| 7 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 8 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 9 | ‘ George Best ’ had confirmed the group 's status as a major outfit and it became inevitable they would soon move on from their Reception Records . |
| 10 | This one did know his man , and made sure he should never arrive . |
| 11 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |
| 12 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 13 | ‘ If I lived alone I would nearly go crazy . |
| 14 | His heart contracted and the thought struck him that this domestic scene encompassed all he could ever want of life . |
| 15 | C. If fifty people came to me , real honest respectable people , and swore blind you would n't escape , I would n't trust them . |
| 16 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 17 | He even flew backwards sometimes , though how he managed this I 'll never know . |
| 18 | He was delighted to receive a good price for me , especially as he felt sure I would not live longer than a month . |
| 19 | I felt sure I would never see poor Glumdalclitch again , and I knew how sad she would be to lose me . |
| 20 | Had she lived , I felt sure he would not have had time for me . |
| 21 | Similarly , for the teenage girl from a strongly Catholic family it might be particularly important that she avoid pregnancy in a relationship with a boy to whom she felt sure she would not like to be married . |
| 22 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 23 | She felt confident it would not dare to rain ; it was her holiday after all . |
| 24 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 25 | If we all did that we 'd soon get improvements ! |
| 26 | If the brain is removed from a frog but its spinal cord left intact it will still display reflexes including defensive reactions . |
| 27 | Once we had these we could immediately understand the commercial angles . ’ |
| 28 | They said first they would never race again , then that they were withdrawing for the season , then that it was unpatriotic of the Austrians to run a grand prix while their hero was near to death . |
| 29 | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager 's job was third prize . |
| 30 | He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls , and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation . |