Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 2 | IRISH premier Albert Reynolds looks certain to fall today , after three members of his frail coalition government resigned yesterday and affirmed they would oppose a vote of confidence . |
| 3 | Under threat : Irish premier Albert Reynolds looks certain to fall today after three members of his frail coalition government resigned and affirmed they would oppose a vote of confidence . |
| 4 | He looked at his love 's shuttered , miserable face and realized he would get nowhere along those lines . |
| 5 | She knew what they were saying and realized she could come to church no more . |
| 6 | One day she went to her favourite place , a beach a couple of hours from the city , and realized she 'd become a stressed-out workaholic . |
| 7 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 8 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |
| 9 | ‘ When he first told me , I tried to understand him and agreed he could dress up once a week at home . |
| 10 | Leith snapped angrily — and realised she could go on in the same vein until she was blue in the face and it still would n't dent him . |
| 11 | Tree surgeon , Jim Unwin , took one look at this ancient yew in Staunton churchyard and realised he 'd have to act fast . |
| 12 | By the end of the year the government was forced to change the situation and announced it would produce a range of standard emergency furniture for bombed persons . |
| 13 | Corollary Inc hitched a ride on Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT wave and announced it will offer a symmetric multi-processing 80486-based system for developing and debugging NT applications , the MP Developer Station . |
| 14 | Finally 5 Corps stated to Eighth Army : " it would appear that unless these formations are taken over by us as formed bodies and disarmed they will force their way across border as individual bandits plunder the country disorganise economic life our zone and threatened our security . |
| 15 | And pretended she could hear gulls mewing and the squeak of sand under the balls of her feet and the rhythm of wings . |
| 16 | He apologised , said he felt tired , and promised they would meet again when some decisions could be made . |
| 17 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 18 | Banks made provisions of up to around 70% against total third-world loans , and assumed they would get tax relief as if they had actually lost money . |
| 19 | He 'd been charged eventually and thrust into a cell for the night ; then , half an hour later , without explanation , given his belt back and told he could go . |
| 20 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 23 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
| 24 | Mark looked up at the tiny speck in the stratosphere and imagined he could hear the air hostess requesting passengers to fasten their seat belts . |
| 25 | The second one shook his head and gestured we should follow . |
| 26 | She drew a line down the centre of Stella 's nose with a stick of No.5 and gestured she should rub it in . |
| 27 | Mr Cooney said there were areas of the fire service in Cleveland where there was still work to be done and added he would like to see a new fire station in central Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 29 | They proposed that Harward create such a super-track tuned to human elasticity , and predicted it would increase speeds by 2 or 3 per cent . |
| 30 | He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again . |