Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last remark that day mused on how it might happen : ‘ Maybe the rock catalyses the reaction ! ’ |
| 2 | I walked in a daze trying to keep warm as strange fantasies plagued my mind : Selkirk chanting in a field of white roses all stained by blood ; my mother crouching on a step as she used to when I would play and run to her — but , when I drew closer , she was an old cripple , eyes open , face frozen blue . |
| 3 | He does n't move , then suddenly his head gives a small jerk forward and his eyes buck wide open , the way they always used to when he 'd make some incoherent claim to lineage to the gods . |
| 4 | But it seemed as how you could become a troopie . |
| 5 | At length , she located the literature department and , entering , asked the first student she came upon where she might find Dr McKitrick . |
| 6 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
| 7 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 8 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 9 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 10 | And then she thought of how she might find an answer to some of her questions . |
| 11 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 12 | Soaring out thought the airlock into the Fraxillian sunshine , I thought of how I must have looked to nay people below . |
| 13 | I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know . |
| 14 | Even though we had n't won at Cov since 1976 , it felt like today we would begin to shut the critics up and show them that we truly are contenders . |
| 15 | I bet if you fell in there you 'd get froze in a second . |
| 16 | It also did n't help that the toad 's colouring blended perfectly with the surroundings for , Harry remembers , you never knew from where it might jump . |
| 17 | Victor and George ended up riding a spare horse — I do n't know where it came from — and then we went to where they 'd come from . |
| 18 | When Bill and Kevin and I looked at how we could cope with appraisal in our division , the numbers did n't work out as badly at least as I thought they were going to originally . |
| 19 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 20 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 21 | They knew by now we 'd think they 'd run out . |
| 22 | I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt . |
| 23 | I said as how I 'd see you through the move and I 've already stayed on longer , just to help out , like . ’ |
| 24 | Er , if you slept in there you 'd have had to lay there with umbrella up ! |
| 25 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 26 | Yeah I spelt it wrong I said at least I can put another N on it . |