Example sentences of "[to-vb] [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 | It would be very interesting to know if he had seen any of their original works in London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | the probation service held their own inquiry to see if they had made any mistakes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even to allow such images into her mind meant she 'd dropped the barriers too far — something she could n't afford to do if she wanted to survive this experience mentally intact . |
| 10 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 11 | Questions to determine whether he had taken any steps to prevent him driving may be necessary , such as ‘ Where are the ignition keys ? ’ or ‘ Is anybody else in charge of this vehicle ? ’ |
| 12 | Heavens , how in creation was she to phone them to ask if they 'd got that part yet ? |
| 13 | The poetry book I had was Stevenson 's A Child 's Garden of Verses , and I read it obsessively , once going in to Smith 's in the High Road to ask if he 'd written any other poems . |