Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good thing you were near Gullholm when the engine failed or you 'd never have survived . ’ |
| 2 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 3 | At the Feb. 27 Országgyüles session , one representative called for seats in parliament for minorities , and another proposed that there should also be church representation . |
| 4 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 5 | The British Trias is almost completely lacking in marine fossils below the Rhaetian , but I maintained that one could nevertheless see the effects of alpine transgressions reflected in our continental sediments . |
| 6 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 7 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 8 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 9 | Isabel Lavender had never for one moment doubted that everything would somehow , eventually , go her way , though she could accept the idea of temporary setbacks . |
| 10 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 11 | Leith doubted that she would ever meet the man in such a highly exalted position . |
| 12 | She doubted that he would ever have had reason to suggest that to Nicole . |
| 13 | Somehow she doubted that he 'd now ever believe she was innocent of her father 's plans , and that , if her father was successful in forcing Ace 's hand , she would be the one who would suffer . |
| 14 | Like , right after the Hüskers broke up I had so much I wanted to say musically and doubted that anyone would ever want to hear it . |
| 15 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 16 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 17 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 18 | Once we had got them down , we found that one could scarcely stand up . |
| 19 | I found that I could no longer hear the boat 's engine . |
| 20 | I found that I could quickly discard the handbook in favour of striking out on my own and was quite satisfied with the results . |
| 21 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 22 | Turning from downwind to base at around 500 feet I found that you could almost pull the throttle completely back and make a glide approach . |
| 23 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 24 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 25 | When he arrived he found that he 'd already become something of a legend . |
| 26 | If I stopped I found that she 'd immediately close them again . |
| 27 | They had been bought by a well intended but misguided woman who found that she could no longer afford to keep them . |
| 28 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 29 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 30 | She glared back at him , nettled that he should even ask such a thing . |