Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all motion , always moving … so I suppose that must mean I did n't stop ; not really . |
| 2 | Of course some may say he ruined the day . |
| 3 | ‘ This would mean we had given in to vandalism and bad behaviour , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I shall write properly very soon , but thought this would keep you amused between army reports in the meantime . |
| 5 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 6 | It has , of course , gone through many changes and perhaps some would say it had become less romantic and more simple companionship . |
| 7 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 8 | And ‘ Some would say I lived alone ’ : I remembered the scarcely concealed contempt with which he had said that . |
| 9 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 10 | ‘ That 'll keep 'em shut , ’ she said with satisfaction and replaced the sheet . |
| 11 | Ever since Lavoisier , chemists had kept their science distinct from what was coming to be called ‘ physics ’ ; Thomas Thomson even declared about 1840 that it would not matter if chemists and natural philosophers had different theories of heat — each could use what worked better for them . |
| 12 | Your indignation — the less charitable would call it calculated gamble — has paid off . |
| 13 | According to Guidon , COSE II will include everything related to networking , distributed computing and interoperability . |
| 14 | According to Guidon , COSE II will include everything related to networking , distributed computing and interoperability . |
| 15 | Just as cricket buffs can remember who scored how many runs on this or that ground in a particular season decades ago , so too the Hawaiian can recall who surfed which wave when , where and how . |
| 16 | White ceiling , white curtains shifting in a breeze , a huge bed neither would admit they had seen and what it meant . |
| 17 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 18 | Even that would make me burst into tears , because all the simple things in life had become a problem for me . " |
| 19 | I have a great urge to throttle you , but that would prove I 'd inherited your madness and I want no trait of you to show in me , ever . |
| 20 | ( One must presume he saw the answer had to be one half of 100 x 101 . ) |
| 21 | So shift and F one should give us set up , so first of all press enter to exit help . |
| 22 | That will keep you occupied in the evenings , eh , Willoughby ? |
| 23 | Events or developments that take place around the 12th and 16th could leave you deflated and suspicious of other people 's motives . |
| 24 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |