Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reasons mentioned I would dismiss these appeals . |
| 2 | In addition to the menus listed you may consume each day : |
| 3 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 4 | ‘ But you promised we 'd see red grouse , ’ wailed an insatiable lad . |
| 5 | We found we could detect 12.5 fg M tuberculosis DNA with the IS 6110 primers , but only 36 fg with the 65 kilodalton based primers . |
| 6 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 7 | For some time afterwards whenever a crisis occurred they would ask each other , ‘ What would Père Obein say ? ’ |
| 8 | Whitlock doubted he would have another gun but he still approached the warehouse with professional caution . |
| 9 | Greatrakes , however , found he could cure advanced scrofula , and soon extended his treatment to dropsy , ague , rheumatism and many other ailments . |
| 10 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 11 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 12 | Not that she imagined she would have any difficulty finding a job . |
| 13 | Dana took her time in following her sister , and Claudia imagined she would take full advantage of her sister 's absence . |
| 14 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 15 | Merging companies believed they could achieve significant gains in productivity and profits , and government policy assumed that these would offset any adverse effects from an increase in monopoly power . |
| 16 | Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect . |
| 17 | If the Soviet Union believed it could exploit possible NATO weakness at the intermediate nuclear level , the risks for it from aggression would be less . |
| 18 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 19 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 20 | She knew that whatever Margaret got she would make sure Maura got it back one hundredfold . |
| 21 | ‘ She claimed they might have some bearing on Clare 's death . |
| 22 | Some people can ‘ feel ’ the presence nearby of massive objects ; even if blindfolded they would run little risk of walking into a wall . |
| 23 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 24 | The Halifax predicted a base rate cut ‘ within the next few weeks ’ , pledged it would pass lower costs on to borrowers without delay and forecast a surge in sales , with some return of house price inflation before the end of the year . |
| 25 | He vowed he 'd put that line in his next book . |
| 26 | Moreover , the Scottish Labour leader , Tom Clarke , stated he would support future events even if the Scottish National Party was also involved . |
| 27 | But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit . |
| 28 | The largest area , a hall in which Tiller claimed he could train 200 pupils at any one time , was dominated by three enormous mirrors that would show the girls their mistakes . |
| 29 | That was when Man discovered you could blow molten glass into a bubble at the end of a long metal pipe . |
| 30 | ‘ I heard you could eat any amount of steak and you 'd lose loads of weight ’ , or ‘ did n't I read somewhere that you are n't supposed to eat carbohydrate and protein at the same meal ? ’ |