Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 2 | Erm you know if if we are going to try to keep going as a viable group then yes one of the things we should consider I mean I I do n't I 've come here sort of thinking oh is this it , is this the crisis meeting or |
| 3 | ‘ But should I have done so ? |
| 4 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 5 | well how much will I have spent then ? |
| 6 | And would I have got so much just from a voice ? |
| 7 | Why should someone have fired so low ? ’ |
| 8 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 9 | It would be too easy to let ourselves get carried away , do something we might regret later . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 11 | No well you see you 've finalized now . |
| 12 | See you 've done very well knocking those together . |
| 13 | You feel good about the help you 've given perhaps , but you still wish the person would only ring when it 's essential . |
| 14 | ‘ I hear you 've gotten so good at it , your parents want you to photograph the christening … ’ |
| 15 | I see you 've got quite a full house here . |
| 16 | I 'm inclined to ring in half an hour to see you 've got there safely , but I suppose I 'd have your brother hopping out of bed . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm not being inquisitive , Captain , and I know it 's none of my business , but why do you remain anchored here ? |
| 18 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
| 19 | ‘ Wait downstairs in the hall — and do n't you dare run away ! ’ |
| 20 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 21 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 22 | Why should she have hoped even for one split second that Rune would attempt to persuade her to change her mind — not that he would have succeeded ? |
| 23 | How could she have responded so instantly ? |
| 24 | How could she have come here , who could have brought her , and would Roy feel compelled to divulge his and Liz 's own smaller , milder secrets in return ? |
| 25 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 26 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 27 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 28 | How could she have melted so completely under his kiss ? |
| 29 | ‘ And what would you have done then ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |