Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ A good thing you were near Gullholm when the engine failed or you 'd never have survived . ’ |
| 2 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 3 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 4 | The British Trias is almost completely lacking in marine fossils below the Rhaetian , but I maintained that one could nevertheless see the effects of alpine transgressions reflected in our continental sediments . |
| 5 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 6 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 7 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 8 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 9 | Leith doubted that she would ever meet the man in such a highly exalted position . |
| 10 | She doubted that he would ever have had reason to suggest that to Nicole . |
| 11 | Like , right after the Hüskers broke up I had so much I wanted to say musically and doubted that anyone would ever want to hear it . |
| 12 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 13 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 14 | Once we had got them down , we found that one could scarcely stand up . |
| 15 | I found that I could quickly discard the handbook in favour of striking out on my own and was quite satisfied with the results . |
| 16 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 17 | Turning from downwind to base at around 500 feet I found that you could almost pull the throttle completely back and make a glide approach . |
| 18 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 19 | When he arrived he found that he 'd already become something of a legend . |
| 20 | If I stopped I found that she 'd immediately close them again . |
| 21 | She glared back at him , nettled that he should even ask such a thing . |
| 22 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 23 | He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again . |
| 24 | On his back , on his bunk , he doubted if he would ever trust another man again . |
| 25 | I trembled because I 'll never return to Rome , she thought , because when I leave tomorrow — and I will leave tomorrow — it will be forever . |
| 26 | Alec and I realized that we would only endanger our lives by trying to extract Father from where he lay and make a night climb with him . |
| 27 | Within a couple of months Constanze was pregnant , and Mozart realized that he would soon have a family to support on what was still a precarious income . |
| 28 | Saibol 's brother , Tepilit , was ready to die because he realized that he would never get justice . |
| 29 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 30 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |