Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He strove through all his waking hours to impose a smartness and snap on Camp 3 , Zone I , that he knew had never been present before , and that during the night hours when he was alone he doubted he would ever achieve . |
| 32 | They were history , and he doubted he would ever truly know them . |
| 33 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
| 34 | At fourteen he found he could also copy perfectly any handwriting placed in front of him . |
| 35 | He found he could no longer hide behind a naive love , a sensuous world of uncomplex bohemia and he was drawn , still yearning for past ignorance , not up or down , but along to a state of affairs that simply put he could not cope with . |
| 36 | He spoke slowly , his gaze never leaving Fairham , who found he could only hold that gaze for a couple of seconds at a time . |
| 37 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 38 | The wind caught at him , blew at him , a gusty enemy he found he could hardly overcome . |
| 39 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 40 | Craigbarnet had been supported , at considerable inconvenience , by the Montrose interest , mainly in order to please the head of the Stirling family , Stirling of Keir , who was a relative of the Duke of Montrose , but no sooner was Craigbarnet out of the running than another potentially explosive dispute arose which might well have set the Duke of Montrose at variance with Lord Elphinstone or another valuable ally , Dundas of Lethem . |
| 41 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 42 | We 'd have thought we 'd nobody 'd ever listen to radio . |
| 43 | Then he continued , ‘ I also remember you saying that you believed you would probably never marry again . ’ |
| 44 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 45 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 46 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 47 | I simply assumed you would much prefer that charming nickname to your own . |
| 48 | I assumed you 'd still be around . |
| 49 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 50 | United we will never be defeated . |
| 51 | Sense impressions produced vibrations within the brain ; two impressions received simultaneously would be linked and a later stimulus which recalled one would also recall the other . |
| 52 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 53 | I knew that both picture books and bookshops came in all shapes and sizes , but I naively assumed we 'd simply conquer that hurdle with some stunning innovative design . |
| 54 | I presume he believed they would never hear of the second marriage . |
| 55 | He believed they may also have exploded blast bombs . |
| 56 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 57 | They could become like the old couple in fathers and Sons — so entwined they would even look alike . |
| 58 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 59 | The doctors believed he would never see again . |
| 60 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |