Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , this Satanist promised he could make things fly . |
| 2 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 3 | Another friend said she would keep an eye on her , but four weeks later we had a phone call from her saying that Shamrock was desperately ill . |
| 4 | The Springbok skipper leads an unchanged team for the historic Test against England on Saturday , warning : ‘ Some people believed we would lose all four matches here but they are already three times wrong . |
| 5 | It was nerve-racking to ride Southall again — some people thought I would give up . |
| 6 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 7 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 8 | Local politicians from both main parties this week said they would resist any plans to merge Darlington and SouthWest Durham health authorities . |
| 9 | Mr John Tholen this week announced he would retire as chairman of Darlington health authority at the end of March . |
| 10 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 11 | If the winning shot ever comes from a longbow again , quite a few people thought it would mean the end of that meeting and adjournment to the pub to spend the rest of the day celebrating ! |
| 12 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 14 | Half of those making this statement thought they would use it for experimentation and over 40 per cent for information handling . |
| 15 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |
| 16 | Most of this Greg felt he could ignore : either he had read it , or could read it in more convenient circumstances . |
| 17 | In pouring rain , police monitered the movements of vehicles leaving the site , although some travellers said they may stay until tomorrow . |
| 18 | To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age . |
| 19 | The main ways these non-enrollers said they would surmount the earlier difficulties were to save money and to get more qualifications . |
| 20 | One person said : ‘ Many clients thought they 'd get a slightly better deal through having a blind social worker because they thought I was having to pull out all the stops to prove that I was good and therefore they would get a spin-off . ’ |
| 21 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 22 | I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme . |
| 23 | Many people thought we should have beaten England the last time . |
| 24 | ‘ Many people thought she could leave off as she liked ’ , and others ‘ slandered and reproved her ’ for not looking after her home and children . |
| 25 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 26 | For the moment , all Harriet felt she could do was to sit back , wait and hope . |
| 27 | As each train arrived you would see the reservation stickers on the coaches . |
| 28 | For if it had , then when those consequences failed we would know exactly where to revise . |
| 29 | If you have lived in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man , any contributions paid there will count towards your pension . |
| 30 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |