Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 2 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 3 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 4 | The centurion … commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land . |
| 5 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 6 | But his father decided that he himself would marry a third wife , and that his son could wait another year or two . |
| 7 | Murray decided that he himself would go after the usurper , as was suitable , the lawful Regent after the false king , with perhaps one thousand hard-riding Border mosstroopers who knew the country , whilst the rest of the Scots army went on down Annandale after the main enemy force . |
| 8 | She knew that nothing she could say would change his mind . |
| 9 | 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ? |
| 10 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 11 | Although Ramsay proposed that he should lead the decoy party , under the royal standard , Murray insisted that he himself must do that , as was suitable . |
| 12 | Jaq wished that he himself could slumber . |
| 13 | He said but what you must do is try it , if you can |