Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than remarking on seasonal changes in the surrounding foliage , the majority of New Yorkers whom I met would relish a detailed discussion about the subtle fluctuations in Real Estate Value . |
| 2 | I have gone into such detail about individual patients to try to convince you first , that it can be misleading to categorize patients too narrowly into groups , and second , that the dual-route model I described can accommodate a wide variety of data from different individual cases . |
| 3 | This new tank had an u/g filter powered by an Aquaclear 301 plus an overhead trickle-through filter powered by a Fluval 4 which I knew could carry a much bigger load than required . |
| 4 | No one else I knew could afford a car like that . |
| 5 | I did n't ask you about out of date , I said might mislead a prospective purchaser that is the reason is n't it why you would update ? |
| 6 | With confused feelings , she smiled back , but she found herself staring in what she realised must seem a naïve display of stunned surprise . |
| 7 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |
| 8 | The least ornament was integral to the whole ; anything she took would create a space in the picture of her history , the only thing in her life left intact . |
| 9 | The fact that very few other girls she knew could hold a candle to Paula did not help much either . |
| 10 | Presumably it meant that after a while you ceased to bring things to the Cabinet that you knew would produce a put-down ? |
| 11 | Comment : The bane of the quiet dinner à deux you were looking forward to in your local French restaurant , and of that meeting which you hoped would reach a rapid resolution . |
| 12 | Erm and if you 've got see if you 've got a vowel and then a c sound so if we said Let's have a look at some vowels and then a c sound . |
| 13 | Well he 's not in he 's out today he 's out he and his wife are out cos we put a phone call in we said let's have a chat with him |
| 14 | The WLL gave priority to the new Labour Party 's Right to Work Bill , introduced into the House of Commons every year between 1906 and 1908 , which they believed would provide a charter of the ‘ Right to Leisure and Home Comfort ’ for working men 's wives . |
| 15 | The childless were also more concerned about items which they thought would set a bad example to children while nearly all parents were aware of the 9pm watershed for more adult programming . |
| 16 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 17 | In January 1918 President Wilson issued his peace proposals , the 14 Points ( CORE , p. 20 ) , which he believed would ensure a great and lasting peace . |
| 18 | THE son of millionaire fraudster Robert Maxwell tried to ban a charity children 's book which he claimed would set a jury against him . |
| 19 | The Task Force on ‘ the environmental dimension ’ of the internal market described itself as ‘ much concerned ’ with the transport sector , which it thought would have a greater impact on the environment than any other sector . |
| 20 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 21 | Here we see Bukharin repeating his argument for a speeding up of the circulation of commodities , which he said would provide a greater surplus out of which investment of all types could be increased . |
| 22 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 23 | AT A MEETING in Pretoria yesterday which FW de Klerk said he hoped would prove a milestone in South African history , the President talked for three hours with the country 's three most politically prominent church leaders , Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Dr Allan Boesak and Rev Frank Chikane . |