Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , instinctively I knew it would pass . |
| 2 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 3 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 4 | It 's something for my wife which I ca n't afford cos I 've been off sick so I thought it would be something nice for her . |
| 5 | Well , my fingers get swelling as well , so I thought it would n't do any harm . |
| 6 | So I thought it would maybe something with sugar . |
| 7 | Anyway he was nineteen ten so I thought it would be interesting . |
| 8 | So I thought it 'll be interesting , be a laugh ! |
| 9 | so I knew it 'd be something like that |
| 10 | and she 's never even so I knew it must be a bad cold , oh dear I said ! |
| 11 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 12 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently she thought it might just go away . ’ |
| 14 | Diplomatically she accepted it would be better not to mention that it was jealousy about her ideas . |
| 15 | So she said it would n't be done till tomorrow morning , but I need something , |
| 16 | Which basically I mean she 's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away just to sort of sa you know have a breather from it all . |
| 17 | As most models have only one wound it will not be necessary to roll this extra dice , but it is important when it comes to rolling for models that can take several wounds . |
| 18 | Although many people had no clear idea of what level of employment was ‘ full ’ , none the less they felt it would not be the level of employment of the '20s or '30s . |
| 19 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 20 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 21 | So he said it would n't involve much , but to run a fete does involve a lot of work . |
| 22 | know nothing after that , but anyway I said it will , I 'm putting this away so I 'll have a hundred pound then and if she does n't come I says I 'll have a hundred pound for |
| 23 | She saw a skull beneath her skin , but the image meant nothing , although somehow she thought it should . |
| 24 | Beth did not fool herself that it would be an easy thing to talk about what she had kept hidden all these years , but somehow she felt it would be a natural thing for her to confide in Cissie . |
| 25 | " Alligator " pulls it off They said it could n't be done . |
| 26 | Later I realised it would have been wiser to have made a stitch on the empty needles and worked a couple of rows before finishing . |
| 27 | probably now we started it might be well worth while g getting rid of some of these schemes that are n't operating |
| 28 | ‘ You may be right , ’ he said soothingly , though frankly he thought it would work wonderfully well . |
| 29 | I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather . |
| 30 | Well I thought it would n't be a bad idea to put some sort of clue on it . |