Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 2 | On Saturday 7 March 1719 ( English style ) the Spanish invasion force , consisting of 5000 men , plus some horses and with food and water for a month , sailed from Cadiz in 25 transports , escorted by only five weakly armed warships which would have been outnumbered and out-gunned if they had encountered either of the British squadrons . |
| 3 | I did n't know if I 'd covered all these |
| 4 | It would be very interesting to know if he had seen any of their original works in London . |
| 5 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
| 6 | At the age of 19 he sat the Queen 's Scholarship Examination , which he would have to pass if he wished to pursue any form of teacher-training after the initial apprenticeship . |
| 7 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 8 | A few weeks before , he 'd returned home soon after getting to work because he 'd left some important papers behind , and found the house totally silent , all three children and their mother sound asleep at 9.30 in the morning . |
| 9 | No , unfortunately I missed part of the evening and I do n't know whether they had done that previously but when I was there they did n't do it , no . |
| 10 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 11 | Everything had been shattered when he 'd brought another dimension into the situation , tried to force something she did n't want , something she did n't think she could ever face again … |
| 12 | Defeat also robbed Edberg of the chance of regaining his world No 1 ranking — which he would have done if he had won this final major tournament of the year . |
| 13 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 14 | What would you have said if I 'd suggested that ? ’ |
| 15 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 16 | The move is that which Aristotle or Kant would have made if they had promoted all outsiders ( such as women and non-European peoples ) to the status of honorary Athenian or Prussian men . |
| 17 | What he had done , he had done because he wanted to make some contribution , pay back to society the great debt he felt by being born to such privilege . |
| 18 | ‘ What on earth did you do after you 'd found this unknown girl in your house ? ’ |
| 19 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 20 | the probation service held their own inquiry to see if they had made any mistakes . |
| 21 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 22 | I am safe here , he thought : and the thought was so rare , so violent in its unexpectedness , that he looked around like a villain in a melodrama to see if anyone had overheard this God-tempting thought . |
| 23 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 24 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 25 | but I mean if you 'd bought all the extras , last year you had about fifty . |
| 26 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 27 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 28 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 29 | We believe political officials have responsibilities we could not defend if we had to build these directly from the ordinary requirements of individual personal morality most of us accept for ourselves and others in nonpolitical life . |
| 30 | Dougal glanced at her face , wondering if he had imagined that note of amused satisfaction in her voice . |