Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |
| 2 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 3 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 4 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 5 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 6 | The book alleged the Princess suffered from bulimia and felt she would never become Queen . |
| 7 | There was no time to question her motives ; she just knew she would never mention fitzAlan to this man . |
| 8 | Enid felt she did not have the concentration for advanced driving or painting but thought she could probably try gardening . |
| 9 | I thought we might perhaps have lunch . ’ |
| 10 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 11 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 12 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 13 | In a history of Scaitcliffe School in Egham , Surrey , Mr Vickers recalled a knee injury Mr Branson suffered as a boy of 12 which meant he could never play contact sports again . |
| 14 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 15 | If it did it would soon lose support and wither away . |
| 16 | They said I 'd never know pain again , or hunger . |
| 17 | I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection . |
| 18 | I glimpsed what she had written — nothing extraordinary except that she hoped she would soon find deliverance from her troubles . |
| 19 | Mr Dale said it would also provide Jaguar with a unique opportunity to reach people who might buy one of its cars . |
| 20 | Rosehaugh Stanhope , developer of Broadgate in the City , said it could house all those affected , and Olympia and York , developer of Canary Wharf , said it could also provide space . |