Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 2 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 3 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 4 | ‘ It just occurred to me you might like to … ’ ; |
| 5 | ‘ It never occurred to me you 'd want anything else — or at least , ’ she amended with a sheepish smile , ‘ I never dared hope you would want anything else . |
| 6 | It never occurred to me you could think that . |
| 7 | If she warned Ace what her father expected of him he 'd laugh in her face . |
| 8 | Whatever my father asked of me I should have said no . |
| 9 | If it came from me she would believe it . |
| 10 | If John 's moral life came to me I would say : |
| 11 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 12 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 13 | It seemed to me you could have no other name . |
| 14 | It seemed to her she must have on every piece of jewellery the family owned . |
| 15 | ‘ What I mean is — she explained your circumstances quite openly and asked that if anything happened to her I would keep an eye on your affairs . ’ |
| 16 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 17 | Mr Gillis continued writing and when Alec turned to me I could see the strain on his face . |
| 18 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 19 | The government could issue each family with a cage for their own felon , and depending on how they felt about him they 'd treat him accordingly . |
| 20 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 21 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 22 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 23 | If he knew of them he would have them destroyed at once , and I do n't want that to happen . ’ |
| 24 | In turn Vaughan continued to complain of Minton 's riotous life for if he felt like it he would start jiving in the middle of the night . |
| 25 | I was not in love with Terry , never had been ; I went after him , deliberately , because I was ripe for an affair and I thought with him I could have one and enjoy it and still feel like the nice clean girl-next-door afterwards . |
| 26 | he use to have his own house , last year he went into it you 'd think they 'd get some of it and to weed the gardens |
| 27 | If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there . |
| 28 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 29 | ‘ Simon reckoned that after Sintra if he spoke about me you 'd get tense — though you did n't realise he noticed . |
| 30 | Whenever I ran into him he would ask , ‘ Seen Hornbaker yet ? ’ |