Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 2 | They could become like the old couple in fathers and Sons — so entwined they would even look alike . |
| 3 | But they obviously felt they could n't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people , mainly on Sky TV , had already judged the issue . |
| 4 | Connelly hoped they could n't hear the desperation in his voice . |
| 5 | With three major sponsors on board , and a new pavilion just completed they will certainly take some stopping , despite last weekend 's annihilation at the hands of Bath . |
| 6 | He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls . |
| 7 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 8 | Eventually , those waging their campaign against her found they were losing , and furthermore , they quickly realized they could n't afford not to be seen as a Katherine Lundy party . |
| 9 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |
| 10 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 11 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 12 | Presumably felt they could n't afford |