Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 2 | If you are the right weight already you could very probably still be healthier if you reduced your intake of saturated fats . |
| 3 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 4 | I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would . |
| 5 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 6 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 7 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 8 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 9 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 10 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 12 | ‘ It would be easier if you told us where the drugs are , sir . |
| 13 | I think he 'd be interested if you heard anything tonight . |
| 14 | It would be sad if we lost everything would n't it ? |
| 15 | And I 'd be sad if I thought you were less than happy with them . ’ |
| 16 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 17 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 18 | I 'd be delighted if you found something . |
| 19 | As Johnson passed his urine and reflected on the result and his uncharacteristically quiet performance , he wearily joked , ‘ It would be typical if they found something . ’ |
| 20 | I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me . |
| 21 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
| 22 | He 'd be suspicious if I kept them long . |
| 23 | He admitted last night : ‘ It would be incredible if we pulled it off after all the upheaval at the club this season . |
| 24 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’ |
| 26 | But it would be idle to pretend that there were not frivolous appeals and attempts by parties to delay and frustrate justice and to be obstructive if it suited them , when litigants learned how to " play " the courts to their advantage . |
| 27 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 28 | She remembered the glint of steel in his eyes last night , and she knew then that she would be lucky if he allowed her to get that far into explaining anything . |
| 29 | But on the picket line Bob Busby had pointed out to her that the Shadow Scheme was official University business and that she would be strike-breaking if she kept her appointment . |
| 30 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |