Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in some of the major ones , the children and the elderly , there are quite clearly on the statutes laid down , and case law , laid down saying you must go through a process of consultation . |
| 2 | She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them . |
| 3 | She tried not to think what would happen . |
| 4 | Gabriel knelt up inside the cart and peered out to see what would happen . |
| 5 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you needed breathing space — besides , I 'd already ensured you would return with my advertising campaign — and also I 'd taken one extra precaution . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 8 | And then I asked my father on Tuesday to remind him and he said , he 'd already said he 'd fetch them in on Tuesday . |
| 9 | She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had . |
| 10 | One of the Newnham ones said she 'd always hoped you 'd come back . |
| 11 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 12 | I 'd always thought I 'd like to work in an old people 's home . |
| 13 | It would be the same for Rory — she 'd always known she 'd give her heart only once , and that was why she had n't played the love game with the same reckless abandon as so many of her contemporaries . |
| 14 | And if he 'd any sense he would have guessed my reaction . |
| 15 | IN WHICH the barefoot songstrel rewrote her life story for the late Eighties , and came back to claim what should have been hers years before . |
| 16 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 17 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 18 | She 'd half expected he would want to make love with her again , had felt her own body liquefy with musky desire for him . |
| 19 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 20 | Gwendoline watched eagerly to see what would happen when Mary-Lou opened hers but nothing did happen . |
| 21 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
| 22 | Oh and yes … a chap from Conservative Central Office rang up to say they 'd like to know if you would be prepared to stand for the European Parliament . |
| 23 | But Alan Milburn , Labour candidate for Darlington , hit back saying they could meet their promises . |
| 24 | ‘ I reckon if you 'ad n't left you 'd 'ave bin a parlourmaid by now , ’ Ella Tomkin said . |
| 25 | That first day or two , I kept on thinking he would telephone , that it was all a sort of whim . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't like your attitude , ’ he informed me , and then went on to say he would feel irresponsible selling me the bag since I displayed such a devil-may-care response to his safety lecture . |
| 27 | He went on to say he would introduce a scheme for voluntary union membership as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 29 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 30 | He rather grumpily agreed and went away saying they would have to rehearse . |