Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Surely you realised I would hardly be here but for some catastrophe . |
| 3 | I realised I could no longer pussyfoot around ! |
| 4 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 5 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 6 | If all else failed I could usually rely on Massimo getting an ego-boosting tip from Helga , who was n't allowed to take part herself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were very quiet and sad at first , because I would be leaving them , but I promised I would never forget them and would often return to visit them . |
| 9 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |
| 10 | How this deficit occurred I shall never know , but in some strange way the Medical Clerk was held responsible . |
| 11 | Most of the living accommodation at Low Birk Hatt faces north and I always thought that when I moved I would definitely have a south-facing house . |
| 12 | and I I found I 'd just put a hundred there instead and that 's why I put two hundred |
| 13 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 14 | I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting . |
| 15 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 16 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 17 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 18 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 19 | She doubted she would ever be in danger of taking anyone at face value again , not after meeting Feargal and his sister . |
| 20 | She doubted she would ever sleep again while fitzAlan was in the immediate vicinity , but the prospect of remaining awake and having to keep her mask of aloof composure in place was daunting indeed . |
| 21 | Open , friendly and honest by nature herself , she was happiest with others who acted in the same way , but Adam Burns was a riddle she doubted she would ever find the answer to . |
| 22 | Maggie wanted to say that the way she felt she doubted she 'd ever want to eat again , but did n't . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 24 | Nigel Lawson then proposed we should either scrap SERPS and put nothing in its place or leave the whole issue until the next Parliament . |
| 25 | ‘ If I do n't get Seawitch moved we could well end up as wreckage on those rocks . ’ |
| 26 | It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up . |
| 27 | By the time the mare impacts occurred there would probably have been too little dust available to fill the maria . |
| 28 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |
| 29 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 30 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |