Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reasons mentioned I would dismiss these appeals . |
| 2 | In addition to the menus listed you may consume each day : |
| 3 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 4 | They found they could explain all the experimental data on neutral weak currents by assuming quantum mixing between the electromagnetic current and the neutral weak current . |
| 5 | For some time afterwards whenever a crisis occurred they would ask each other , ‘ What would Père Obein say ? ’ |
| 6 | Remember they used to used they used to get these , the farmers used to ask for these boxes because they made er hen 's nests , you know that type you know where they Oh they were good boxes . |
| 7 | Whitlock doubted he would have another gun but he still approached the warehouse with professional caution . |
| 8 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 9 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 10 | Not that she imagined she would have any difficulty finding a job . |
| 11 | ‘ I never imagined she 'd do such a thing . ’ |
| 12 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 13 | The Springbok skipper leads an unchanged team for the historic Test against England on Saturday , warning : ‘ Some people believed we would lose all four matches here but they are already three times wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 15 | Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect . |
| 16 | A full 40 per cent believed he should introduce such a measure in his Budget speech , with 44 per cent disagreeing . |
| 17 | He was a darling of the Press — it seemed he could do little wrong . |
| 18 | Yeah cos in , well I do n't suppose it could be vacuum sealed it would rip all your |
| 19 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 20 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 21 | She described herself as introspective , and when not totally frustrated she could analyse much of her behaviour and choose what she would or would not say . |
| 22 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She claimed they might have some bearing on Clare 's death . |
| 24 | Some people can ‘ feel ’ the presence nearby of massive objects ; even if blindfolded they would run little risk of walking into a wall . |
| 25 | He vowed he 'd put that line in his next book . |
| 26 | She reckoned it must take all of eight or nine metric minutes per person . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard you could eat any amount of steak and you 'd lose loads of weight ’ , or ‘ did n't I read somewhere that you are n't supposed to eat carbohydrate and protein at the same meal ? ’ |
| 28 | If we got this Monopoly game finished we could get this cleared up could n't we ? |
| 29 | However if they want to be juggled and redesigned we will do that at no extra cost . |
| 30 | Nigel figured they 'd take any old crap by a woman . |