Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd rather know I came fourth and ninth . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 4 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 5 | I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest , as the female died during the night . |
| 6 | ‘ One can only believe they had been sympathetic and supportive over Diana 's marriage problems . |
| 7 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |
| 8 | Merrill had the distinct feeling that he had noticed her distraction and she could only hope he had n't guessed the reason for it . |
| 9 | One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit , tradition and nowhere else to go . |
| 10 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 11 | ‘ So … if the kitchen bag had just been changed and the photos were on the top outside , it can only mean he threw out the photos in the last couple of days . ’ |
| 12 | So I think the , the whole idea of the , the seminar was to kind of basically get ourselves organized but have it in a kind of er seminar format . |
| 13 | We better get it cleared before this lot |
| 14 | In fact she was such a quiet baby that sometimes when her father came home drunk on Friday nights he would fondly imagine she had joined her blessed mother in heaven . |
| 15 | It sounded like a dangerous place , somewhere you could swiftly find yourself robbed , raped , or suddenly erased . |
| 16 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 17 | W&M would only reiterate that its options remained open while Invergordon would only state there had been no talks with W&M regarding the proposed takeover . |
| 18 | To better appreciate the size of the sea , one can perhaps imagine it heaped up into a cube . |
| 19 | I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’ |
| 20 | We agreed that the man or woman does not exist who had never made a mistake , however foolish . |
| 21 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 22 | Really , she could not think what had come over Harold . |
| 23 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 24 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 25 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 26 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 29 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 30 | I did not think you thought such things . |