Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 3 | However , when he heard my answers to his questions , he realized I must be alive , and he could not hide his astonishment . |
| 4 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 5 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 6 | I was going out and playing five nights a week and I realised I should be a hell of a lot better than I was . |
| 7 | Misreading the crumpled instructions I took the steps to the first floor , realised I should be on the fourth , so ran and eased myself through the closing lift doors , coming face to face with Malc . |
| 8 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 9 | I am hard hearted I am self centred I must be soft . |
| 10 | I promised I 'd be back to say goodbye . |
| 11 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to write to me about the details of the case to which he referred I shall be happy to respond . |
| 12 | ‘ Which indicates , ’ Naylor Massingham went on , waiting no longer for her to answer , ‘ that the person who assaulted you must be someone quite high up . ’ |
| 13 | –The foreman promised you 'd be here . |
| 14 | She simply clutched her head and closed her eyes , trying to stop the room spinning in front of her — knowing that if she moved she would be violently sick . |
| 15 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 16 | She doubted she would be quick enough to retreat to the top floor if that happened . |
| 17 | However deeply involved she might be in her own conversation she rarely missed anything that was said by those around her . |
| 18 | No doubt we were all thinking he was crazy , or that if we stopped we 'd be late for work . |
| 19 | However mangled they might be — in pidgin , for example — European languages took with them European concepts . |
| 20 | The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means . |
| 21 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 22 | Acknowledging that yesterday 's inflation figure of 7.6 per cent was ‘ far too high ’ for a Conservative government , she promised it would be brought down again . |
| 23 | He signed the despatch with his name and rank , then handed it to Blasendorf who promised it would be delivered as swiftly as his horses could cross country . |
| 24 | Now , the Club Dog is the howling interactive success its humble beginnings promised it could be . |
| 25 | She and her husband never doubted it would be a girl . |
| 26 | But Russia 's UN ambassador Yuli Vorontsov said after meeting Yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic that Friday 's UN session of security council foreign ministers could be delayed until May 25 , but he doubted it would be this month . |
| 27 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 28 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 29 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 30 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |