Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 2 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 3 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
| 4 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 5 | I 'd barely finished my prawn cocktail before I realised I could fall for him . ’ |
| 6 | Phil is an ardent Stoke City supporter and season ticket holder and colleagues joked me may need to ‘ get away from it all ’ as he is still trying to shrug off his team 's F.A . |
| 7 | I promised , you see , I promised I 'd go to him if he asked . |
| 8 | I promised I 'd cook for them . ’ |
| 9 | I found I 'd come to the Wetherden Mapole , and there was a chap there with his horses . |
| 10 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
| 11 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 12 | She found she could sit at work in the Rose Bowl , her hands occupied as they were now , while in her head she relived the moments she had spent with Luke ; his hands caressing her ; his mouth on hers . |
| 13 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 14 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 15 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 16 | She even promised she would speak to Albert and see what could be done in the way of money . |
| 17 | She told Community Care : ‘ He promised he would look after me . |
| 18 | ‘ Ernest did n't say , but he promised he 'd look in some time soon , so you can ask him yourself . ’ |
| 19 | Benson declared his availability for this year 's Ireland matches and the Irish selectors deemed he should play for Munster , the weakest of the six inter-pro teams . |
| 20 | Bradl also found he could cope with pressure last season . |
| 21 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 22 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |
| 23 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , he asked Ranulf to learn what he could from his new-found paramour though , privately , he believed nothing would come of that . |
| 25 | He believed nothing should stand in the way of the security of the United States , and was less choosy than Congress about what means he took to preserve it . |
| 26 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 27 | I went home every weekend for three nights and on Wednesday night , and believed I could blast up the motorway when summoned for the birth . |
| 28 | They assumed I 'd go to Chislehurst with them , but I said I 'd turn up later on my bike ; I 'd make my own arrangements . |
| 29 | But you assumed I 'd come in answer to your advertisement . |
| 30 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |