Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I learned of their disappearance at the time , I never believed they would re-surface intact . |
| 2 | He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett . |
| 3 | There was a very nice room in Wessex , I do n't know whether it 's still there , but it was the main room , where we recorded We Will Rock You and that was all acoustic stuff — it 's just us stamping on boards and clapping over and over again . ’ |
| 4 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 5 | Anyway , I had enough to save up to buy a Raleigh bike one pound it cost — which meant I could cycle over to Middleton in Teesdale on my night off . |
| 6 | Our Irish priest was not a person I felt I could unburden myself to . |
| 7 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 8 | I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side . |
| 9 | I thought they would sort of er pass as hedgerowey leaves . |
| 10 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 11 | Two years ago few people thought he could cajole the island 's two separate tribes — sprung from Protestant planters on the one side and Catholic Gaels on the other — into meeting at all . |
| 12 | They told her that if she did they would outcast her . |
| 13 | Did he will failure on himself for the sake of his solitude ? |
| 14 | And I said I can sort of keep on top of mine , but I said I am up early . |
| 15 | He said we might sort of say to you right we want fifty quid . |
| 16 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 17 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 18 | She supposed she should humour him but she did n't know how . |