Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never imagined it would end like this . |
| 2 | But yesterday Independent councillor Tony Moore , who opposed the increase , warned it could lead to more hardship . |
| 3 | This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses — security printing and heating and bathroom products . |
| 4 | ‘ I never dreamed it would come to this , ’ she declared . |
| 5 | If the Sundial went it would drop by another 52pc . |
| 6 | It was Emily who had suggested this ‘ drink after work ’ , and he knew it would lead to more than that . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew it would come to this ! ’ |
| 8 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 9 | It was one of the best days of my life : I never thought it would come to that . |
| 10 | Who ever thought it would come to this ? |
| 11 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 12 | Erm , we thought it 'd appeal to young people and we thought it 'd be great fun , which it was , and we raised er one thousand seven hundred pounds . |
| 13 | It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did . |
| 14 | America 's Federal Highway Administration said it might invest in smart roads which could warn drivers of traffic jams and electronically collect tolls for using the road . |
| 15 | In the Hague , the International Court of Justice said it would sit on 1 April for the first public hearing in a war crimes case Bosnia has brought against Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 16 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
| 17 | FRANCE yesterday said it would plan for possible European Community retaliation against Washington if the US imposed its threatened tariffs on some European luxury products . |
| 18 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 19 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 20 | Opposition MPs said it could lead to hundreds of job losses for fishermen . |