Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 2 | Later I realised it would have been wiser to have made a stitch on the empty needles and worked a couple of rows before finishing . |
| 3 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 4 | README.DOC warns of large values — I found it would accept up to 9M in series calculations , and 1M in parallel . |
| 5 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |
| 6 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 7 | I assumed it must have been Eric calling . |
| 8 | I recognised it could mean marking time but I do n't think in practice that has happened . |
| 9 | From that day I ate only pasta dressed with butter and felt safe , because I knew that however late I arrived it would have been saved for me ; no one else would eat it plain . |
| 10 | ‘ I reckoned it might tempt 'im , but no such luck . |
| 11 | I reckoned it would take her three or four minutes to get back to her flat , but maybe it was n't a good idea to hang around the neighbourhood . |
| 12 | I reckoned it 'd have t'run' from the house to a point outside the perimeter fence , cuz that 'd take 'em clear of anyone who wuz in control of the grounds . |
| 13 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 14 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt it might come close to something like this . |
| 16 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 17 | I felt it would bind us together . |
| 18 | Er , in the introductions I did n't stand up and er , introduce myself cos I felt it would steal a few minutes of my er presentation ! |
| 19 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 20 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 21 | But as it was I felt it would have been presumptive . |
| 22 | Yet , instinctively I knew it would pass . |
| 23 | I knew it would lead to trouble . |
| 24 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 25 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 26 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 27 | I knew it would fall flat ; but it was n't the bad script which made the film unsuccessful . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew it would please you . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew it would come to this ! ’ |
| 30 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |