Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd barely finished my prawn cocktail before I realised I could fall for him . ’ |
| 2 | I promised , you see , I promised I 'd go to him if he asked . |
| 3 | I promised I 'd cook for them . ’ |
| 4 | She told Community Care : ‘ He promised he would look after me . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 6 | ‘ That Byrne fellow is gone loony , ’ he told whoever would listen to him . |
| 7 | He really believed in it : he not only thought that others should remain silent during his threadbare pontifications , but he actually believed they would benefit from them . |
| 8 | She readily admits that she did so deliberately : ‘ I do n't think I ever really believed he would stay with me unless we had a child . |
| 9 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman said that Labour would need to implement an FGD programme , and asked who would pay for it . |
| 11 | ‘ When this started , we agreed we would care for her here , and that 's what we 're going to do . ’ |
| 12 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 13 | D'Aubigny rose , greeted us civilly and indicated we should sit with him . |
| 14 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 15 | Zena Murray had seen on television that beauty queens used the trick so she figured it would work for her . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 18 | Charles decided he must talk to her when the opportunity arose . |
| 19 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 20 | ‘ We returned from our holiday in Hungary and I felt I must write to you . |
| 21 | After Africa I felt I could deal with it . ’ |
| 22 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 23 | I knew I should wait for you to grow up . |
| 24 | How could you leave me when you knew I 'd come for you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I knew I could count on her . ’ |
| 26 | I knew I could count on you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I knew I could count on you , ’ she cooed . |
| 28 | ‘ When I had the idea of setting up a promotions business , I immediately thought of Pete because I knew I could work with him . |
| 29 | I thought I would awaken with you in my arms this morning . ’ |
| 30 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |