Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 2 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the City 's surveyors department said : ‘ There was an element of confusion after the blast because the Chamber of Shipping building had partially collapsed and we thought there might be similar damage to the Baltic . |
| 4 | ‘ If they wish to have their children privately educated and they feel they ca n't afford it , when the time comes they can talk to the benevolent fund , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Yes and I I I think y my Lord the plaintiffs will be cross examined quite considerably on the damages claimed and I think it might help your Lordship to see erm the way . |
| 6 | I asked him how he would prefer to be addressed and he said you can call him what you please , as long as it is polite . |
| 7 | ‘ The PCC would n't give him a bean towards getting it repaired and he said he 'd spike their guns and do it himself . ’ |
| 8 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 9 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 10 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 11 | Unless there is a particular problem I would propose to delay altering the stops until moving the shelter can be organised as I think it would be confusing , not to say unpopular , to do otherwise . |
| 12 | ‘ I am honoured that you feel you can talk so freely in my presence , Chieh Hsia . ’ |
| 13 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 14 | But we can actually get it framed and I mean we 'll get it for well under that . |
| 15 | His eyes were small , but as shrewd as any Topaz had seen and she knew she would n't be able to gull him . |
| 16 | Now I have decided and I hope you 'll back that up to reduce our cracker production . |
| 17 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 19 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
| 20 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 21 | At the Delphi Centre pupils are told that whatever happens they will never be suspended ( except in the case of persistent truancy ) . |
| 22 | I have noted that flicking is very common where such a substrate is used and I think it may be from mechanical irritation of the gills by tiny bits of coral suspended in the water . |
| 23 | The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs . |
| 24 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 25 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 26 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 27 | Amaryllis is the first woman to whom I have proposed and I trust she will be the last . |
| 28 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 29 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 30 | It 's a situation that can be fixed and I believe we 'll be much faster , ’ said the three-times Indycar champion . |