Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] would [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubted that I would find one in time . |
| 2 | Only a quarter ( 24% ) of those who replied to a question on exhibition catalogues indicated that they would buy one . |
| 3 | Franco , however , had already shown clearly that he wanted total victory and now indicated that he would contemplate nothing short of unconditional surrender . |
| 4 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I thought that you would take something within reason for yourself . |
| 6 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 7 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 8 | When Bassanio asked the doctor , a dressed up Portia , how he could pay her , she answered that she would take nothing but the ring . |
| 9 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | I meant it when I said that I would do anything . |