Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windley intended that the first camp should be started just before the next batch of moran formed their manyattas , so that those who passed through it would then be an influence for good on their fellows . |
| 2 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 3 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , what happened with us would never , could never , be that . |
| 5 | Ace drew her Browning and fired at Mait , but he had ducked behind the wall of the sedan chair and the bullets ricocheted off what could only be metal . |
| 6 | What the ‘ fixing ’ amounted to we can only guess . |
| 7 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 8 | Who thought of them can only be imagined , but it is obvious that some are attributed to the physical build or character while others have probably got connections with the work they did , terms which have died with them . |
| 9 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
| 10 | According to a couple of young London shoe designers , the well heeled amongst us will soon be stepping out shod in salmon skins . |
| 11 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 12 | Indeed , the size of the increases , together with the publication of the Kinsey Report in 1948 ( which suggested that homosexual behaviour was more widespread than had been commonly thought ) and the media-highlighted prosecution of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on an indecency charge in 1954 , culminated in what may reasonably be described as a ‘ moral panic ’ over homosexuality . |
| 13 | It seems likely that the team they gathered around them will now disperse . |
| 14 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
| 15 | Okay if any of you wanted to you could always go out some tape recorder and people have a listen to it . |
| 16 | Cos if , if you , if you , if you wanted to you could always utilize all the dance floor area tables and things , you know . |
| 17 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |