Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 2 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 3 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 4 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 5 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 6 | How we all laughed when I got it home and realised I ca n't play ! |
| 7 | I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that . |
| 8 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 10 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 11 | If all else failed I could usually rely on Massimo getting an ego-boosting tip from Helga , who was n't allowed to take part herself . |
| 12 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |
| 13 | So I promised I would n't go out with him again . |
| 14 | I promised I would n't touch anything , having no intention whatsoever of going anywhere near the bathroom again . |
| 15 | They were very quiet and sad at first , because I would be leaving them , but I promised I would never forget them and would often return to visit them . |
| 16 | ‘ I promised I wo n't stand in your way , but I think you 're rushing things . |
| 17 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |
| 18 | How this deficit occurred I shall never know , but in some strange way the Medical Clerk was held responsible . |
| 19 | Most of the living accommodation at Low Birk Hatt faces north and I always thought that when I moved I would definitely have a south-facing house . |
| 20 | and I I found I 'd just put a hundred there instead and that 's why I put two hundred |
| 21 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 22 | I found I could n't do the tarot readings anymore . |
| 23 | ‘ No , nor I , and although I might have wanted , so very many times , over the past few years , to walk away , shed my responsibilities , let them all get the hell on with it , perhaps I 'm a marginally better person than I had thought , because I found I could n't do it . |
| 24 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 25 | I prodded with my pole , but somehow the current made it cling , and I found I could n't shake Casey away . |
| 26 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 27 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 28 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
| 29 | And when I did I found I could n't concentrate on my work at all . |
| 30 | sitting on the bed in my old room last night , I found I could n't work out how I felt about Hilda dying . |