Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 3 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 4 | ‘ I never imagined it would end like this . |
| 5 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 6 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 7 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 8 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 9 | He claimed it will lead to job losses among Mr Hunter 's members . |
| 10 | Zena Murray had seen on television that beauty queens used the trick so she figured it would work for her . |
| 11 | His defence came as the Commons Public Accounts Committee decided it would meet on Monday to hold an inquiry into the Guardian 's disclosure of the ‘ sweeteners ’ which were revealed in a confidential memorandum sent to MPs by Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General . |
| 12 | Lord — was a harmless man , with hardly any land , so they decided it would have to be him . |
| 13 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 14 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 15 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 16 | But yesterday Independent councillor Tony Moore , who opposed the increase , warned it could lead to more hardship . |
| 17 | Though it is a sensitive plant , it is quite a good one to grow , as once established it will develop into a sturdy cluster which will last for many years . |
| 18 | This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses — security printing and heating and bathroom products . |
| 19 | ‘ I never dreamed it would come to this , ’ she declared . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter . |
| 21 | She felt it would have to be an MP or someone of similar standing in order that her story would at least be believed . |
| 22 | If the Sundial went it would drop by another 52pc . |
| 23 | Deputies opposing the bill , led by Yegor Ligachev , feared it would lead to the re-emergence of a class society and allow criminal elements to buy up industries . |
| 24 | It was Emily who had suggested this ‘ drink after work ’ , and he knew it would lead to more than that . |
| 25 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 26 | ‘ Apart from the damage it would do to the ground I knew it would have to be ridden every day and then if it bolted or got stuck in the mud it would be my responsibility . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Mungo wondered whether he should deny thinking that , but knew it would sound like sucking up . |
| 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 . ’ |