Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 3 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 4 | He gave a hard smile , and said , ‘ The only one that I knew could fulfil my ambition to be a multimillionaire before I was thirty . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Now this is what I thought might suit your purposes , ’ he said . |
| 6 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 7 | My philosophy being that members who attended the meetings or functions which I attended will know I was there . |
| 8 | The employment reserve of which I spoke would help them to contribute to society and to their personal future and well-being . |
| 9 | Nothing I said could make him change his mind . |
| 10 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 11 | ‘ You think that these other people you mentioned will do me harm ? ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Hamilton was n't confident that the agency nurses she interviewed would respect her desire for confidentiality on the subject . |
| 13 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 14 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 15 | She waited , forcing back tears she thought might irritate him further , watching his implacable shoulders . |
| 16 | Without waiting for the inevitable flourish of the panama and the affected little bow that she knew would accompany his farewell , she turned round and hurried away . |
| 17 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 18 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
| 19 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 20 | It was n't the alcohol you thought would hit me … ‘ |
| 21 | What you saw may help us to prove whether he is the thief or not . ’ |
| 22 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 23 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing you did would surprise me , ’ she returned coldly . |
| 25 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 26 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 27 | By the sound of it he intended to move around anyway , so it was doubtful that any letter she wrote would reach him . |
| 28 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 29 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 30 | I found myself wondering anxiously whether anyone we knew could overhear us . |