Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 2 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 3 | Now erm I think it is and he rang me up and asked me would the strike still be on in the middle of er February . |
| 4 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 5 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 10 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 11 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 12 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 14 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 15 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 16 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 17 | However , when he heard my answers to his questions , he realized I must be alive , and he could not hide his astonishment . |
| 18 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |
| 19 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 22 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 23 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 24 | I left led I would say an uneventful life , but I 've been very happy you know , ups and downs . |
| 25 | Richard needs his nose wiped I 'll have to go upstairs and get some more tissues , who needs they 're nose wiped ? , |
| 26 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 29 | How we all laughed when I got it home and realised I ca n't play ! |
| 30 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |