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341H3G5YF0JHVXHV05H27KZ0I3DZ03 | tell | Obviously Edwin had not murdered Francis but he had created a situation in which violence was more likely. The main provisions of the will were devisive and certain to breed strife, but they provided no motive for Francis's murder. | the only obvious beneficiary from Francis's death was Francis's daughter | How often had Wycliffe told himself that the only obvious beneficiary from Francis's death was his daughter? | question | past | [
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341H3G5YF0JHVXHV05H27KZ0I3DZ03 | mean | ``I know the one. Yes, it was good though I say it myself.'' | she has to be involved in this kind of nauseous business | But that doesn't mean I have to be involved in this kind of nauseous business. | negation | present | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | admit | He had his own worries. There was going to be an official inquiry into the shooting on the arrest of Terry Place. | Terry had fired first | But Terry was now conscious and might possibly admit that he had fired first. | EP | modal | future | [
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | tell | ``Otherwise I shall faint.'' Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room, a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes, peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby. | Stella didn't wear a slip | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she didn't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one just as she had bought her a brassiere after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume. | EP | modal | future | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | know | Nevertheless I can't do that. Melanie or not, it was still in confidence. | Melanie was still there last night | All I can say is that I didn't even know Melanie was still there that night. | negation | past | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | feel | Jed wondered. He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood. | Jed should ask | Nobody had mentioned him either and Jed didn't feel he should ask. | negation | past | [
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | say | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host's prospects and disappointments, he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World, the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits, the difficulties of keeping reliable servants, but of his own world he must remain silent. The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef... No bloody way. | the Deputy Under Secretary was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London | He was a man who could be honest with himself and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London. | AB | modal | present | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | feel | I have realised all this Quincx. I wouldn't want to embarrass you, but I really can see no alternative at present. | she can abandon Crevecoeur after having worked with hir all this time | I don't feel I can abandon Crevecoeur after having worked with hir all this time. | negation | present | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | suggest | We saw him at the Test matches, congratulating Gooch. But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge. | John Major's media advisers were earning their keep | True it was a televised match and some might suggest that his media advisers were earning their keep but a prime minister who endures 90 minutes of Chelsea has surely earned the benefit of the doubt. | EP | modal | present | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | tell | This was a sheer waste of time. He would probably land and then tell them to walk back. | Mitch might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain | When she glanced at him again he looked very grim and she wondered if she should have told Mitch that he might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain - on foot as he walked back to Malaga. | DE | modal | past | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | tell | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind, one hand at her throat, the other yanking at her hair. | the bird was Carmellina's true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress | She screeched and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida. | AB | modal | present | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | notice | What must it be like to be imprisoned here, day after day, month after month? I wonder, does he keep them chained and manacled, thought Fenella, or does he use sorcery? | Fenella was weighing sorcery against steel chains | And so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome. | negation | present | [
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341H3G5YF0JHVXHV05H27KZ0I3DZ03 | imagine | ``Walk with her.'' Elizabeth was walking with Betty behind the doctor and April, who was clinging to his arm and, as it were, daintily tripping up. | April was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion | She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion thought Lydia sneering and lengthening her stride. | EP | modal | present | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | say | Indeed, in those busy days, our servants ' hall would often witness a gathering of some of the finest professionals in England talking late into the night by the warmth of the fire. Sometimes, naturally, there would be strong disagreements, but more often than not, the atmosphere was dominated by a feeling of mutual respect. | regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham valet-butler to Sir James Chambers | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham valet-butler to Sir James Chambers and Mr John Donalds valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson. | conditional | present | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | believe | He was seated at the back of the court, initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets, but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her. Each time she bent to receive serve he found himself staring mesmerized at her derriere. | the camp inmates were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS | Binding me with his confidences he said that the wonderfully athletic Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS. | AB | modal | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | think | Then I knew what had happened. He didn't have to tell me the rest. | her half-brother was dead or ill or something had happened to him | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead or ill or that something had happened to him but I knew then it was something Eric had done and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried. | EP | modal | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | notice | It - the tractor, the boys and the bulbs in the earth - knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them. Of course there was still love, there was healthy, growing love and its name was called Work. | falling in love had happened | She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened. | negation | past | [
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | see | But, of course, that just wasn't possible. Her disappointment over Jonathan, which had driven her to France in the first place, had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind. | marriage to Jonathan would have been a ghastly mistake | Now in retrospect she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart. | AB | modal | present | [
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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | assume | Bohemian pyrotechnics are not what marriage to Stu promises. Gillian has landed herself nothing other than the youngest older man she could find. | he wasn't noticing | But would it have been fair to point all this out as they nuzzled one another on some Anglian plage and assumed I wasn't noticing? | question | past | [
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | say | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host's prospects and disappointments, he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World, the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits, the difficulties of keeping reliable servants, but of his own world he must remain silent. The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef... No bloody way. | the Deputy Under Secretary was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London | He was a man who could be honest with himself and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London. | AB | modal | present | [
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | see | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head. He summoned a girl, who seemed mesmerised by his virile look, and ordered lager for them both. | Roman was under considerable strain | ``I need something stronger than coffee '' he said and Claudia could see that he was under considerable strain. | AB | modal | present | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | tell | But she did not tell me about the food, or the cold, or the unkind teachers. Charlotte told me those things, much later. | the food was often burnt and uneatable | I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold. | negation | past | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | imagine | Jane ate without pausing. Hunger was an unknown experience. | hunger could actually hurt | She had never imagined it could actually hurt. | negation | past | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | feel | Jed wondered. He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood. | Jed should ask | Nobody had mentioned him either and Jed didn't feel he should ask. | negation | past | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | suspect | What had brought Gharr and Ten-huc and Pulvidon to the planet at the same time? Why were all of them so interested in why I was there? | she was picking up something valuable | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up? | conditional | past | [
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3RWSQDNYL9R2NK5L2B6G7Z6MCZCFF1 | mean | Why else would a senior French policeman come all the way from Paris to see Puddephat's wife? The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already. | Veronica had had nothing to do with her husband's death | And she thought with relief if new evidence had turned up in France it might mean that Veronica had had nothing to do with her husband's death. | EP | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | understand | But don't dilly-dally for too long. Once it's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery. | he doesn't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation | Also I am a bit older than the rest of you but you can perhaps understand that I don't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation. | AB | modal | present | [
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | know | ``You don't need to worry. We're quite adequately chaperoned. Rosa is a woman of strict moral principles.'' | he's in here | If she knows I'm in here she's probably hovering outside the door right now. | conditional | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | say | I should think that just about everyone was having a go at everyone else by the time it ended. | it was a war that needed fighting | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting. | CI | modal | present | [
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | say | At this rate I 'll be a Homelessness Statistic. A student! | she is a student | I could say I'm a student. | AB | modal | future | [
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3RWSQDNYL9R2NK5L2B6G7Z6MCZCFF1 | think | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things hadn't gone at all as he 'd hoped. That's what Stuart said that Oliver said. | she reacted to this story in the way Stuart expected | I don't think I reacted to this story in the way Stuart expected. | negation | present | [
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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | notice | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at, had she been invited to it, for although a few of Bienvida's classmates were present in its early stages, by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups. Bienvida and Jasper were of course still there. | Bienvida had at some stage gone back to the Headmaster's Flat | No one noticed that Bienvida her grandmother's granddaughter more than her mother's child had at some stage gone back to the Headmaster's Flat and changed into dungarees to keep her Oxfam dress of nylon organza from getting dirty. | negation | present | [
"3",
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | know | ``He's harmless, quite afraid of me.'' It brought a very visible relaxing of attitudes that quite surprised Maggie. | Maggie had the need to act in her | She didn't know she had it in her but she had felt the need to act. | negation | past | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LI3F7YE | think | The guy with her I 'd never seen before. He was shortish and wiry, had a straight thin moustache and I guessed he was anywhere between 40 and 45. | the guy was a man out shopping with his daughter | If you couldn't see that they were outside a Registry Office you might have thought it was a man out shopping with his daughter. | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | assume | Without the guidance of the nuns, Tilda seemed to have lost her last vestige of moral sense. Partisan Street, the first street on the way up from the boats, was, as has been said, considered a rough place - a row of decrepit two-up, two-down brick houses, the refuge of crippled and deformed humanity. | the crippled and deformed there disappeared from the face of the earth | Whether they were poor because they were lame or lame because they were poor was perhaps a matter for sociologists and a few years later when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth. | DE | modal | present | [
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | suspect | Trazior did overlook such a desert, as southerly sentinel of the Palatine cluster. However, Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain, interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables. | some giant world-spider had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider nourished on venom had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain. | EP | modal | present | [
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] | Trazior did overlook such a desert, as southerly sentinel of the Palatine cluster. However, Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain, interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables.</s>Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider nourished on venom had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain.</s>some giant world-spider had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes | BNC-1134 | 520 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | see | The car engine roared again and the red car moved off but it didn't go far. Stuart's Mum was reversing out of her space and her car was blocking the way. | the red car was going to turn back | Stuart could see that the red car was going to turn back. | AB | modal | present | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | tell | Dam the leaks? If I do that, the Company doesn't have to know I've been interfacing data when I shouldn't. | he got scent of it before the system went down yesterday | I could tell the tutor I got scent of it before the system went down yesterday... Then everyone will think I'm some kind of spy anyway because it's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron. | AB | modal | future | [
"3",
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | suppose | He had only to say he admired Grace Bird's fortitude and instantly her chin stiffened with resolve. He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him, her thumb in her mouth. | the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth. | conditional | present | [
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3D1TUISJWI5BGT41Y870WWKH2FFUI4 | hope | She stole a final critical glance at her face, mentally awarding herself top marks for skilful covering of the tear-stains which had marred her skin just a few minutes before. Now her eyes, with their clever shading of amber and gold, shone back at her, large and lustrous - and the lipstick she 'd chosen made her mouth look lusciously inviting. | Dane would feel the same way | She could only hope Dane would feel the same way. | AB | modal | present | [
"1",
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] | She stole a final critical glance at her face, mentally awarding herself top marks for skilful covering of the tear-stains which had marred her skin just a few minutes before. Now her eyes, with their clever shading of amber and gold, shone back at her, large and lustrous - and the lipstick she 'd chosen made her mouth look lusciously inviting.</s>She could only hope Dane would feel the same way.</s>Dane would feel the same way | BNC-761 | 4,737 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | think | Then a man at the back of the hall began to clap, and someone else joined in. Soon the clapping became fierce applause. | the Collector had just sung an aria | Such was the enthusiasm that you might have thought that the Collector had just sung an aria. | CI | modal | present | [
"-2",
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] | Then a man at the back of the hall began to clap, and someone else joined in. Soon the clapping became fierce applause.</s>Such was the enthusiasm that you might have thought that the Collector had just sung an aria.</s>the Collector had just sung an aria | BNC-1277 | 970 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -1 | 5-1
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | know | But there was little chance of discovering who had killed him without help. Kelly decided that she had to talk to Annie, even if there was a risk that she would tell her husband. | Bill's apprentice was turning supersleuth | Bill would have a fit if he knew his apprentice was turning supersleuth. | conditional | future | [
"1",
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] | But there was little chance of discovering who had killed him without help. Kelly decided that she had to talk to Annie, even if there was a risk that she would tell her husband.</s>Bill would have a fit if he knew his apprentice was turning supersleuth.</s>Bill's apprentice was turning supersleuth | BNC-165 | 1,838 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | think | Almost inaudibly, Fand said, ``Look at me, mortal, and you will see the mark of her spell in my face.'' Reluctantly, Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes. | Ruth would understand what Fand meant | She hadn't thought she would understand what Fand meant. | negation | past | [
"-1",
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] | Almost inaudibly, Fand said, ``Look at me, mortal, and you will see the mark of her spell in my face.'' Reluctantly, Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes.</s>She hadn't thought she would understand what Fand meant.</s>Ruth would understand what Fand meant | BNC-2034 | 2,607 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | think | The shadow was in the form of a vast spaceship resting near ours, and the last thing it looked was shadowy. The surface was gleaming with pure white and even purer gold. | no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance | You might have thought that no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance. | CI | modal | present | [
"1",
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] | The shadow was in the form of a vast spaceship resting near ours, and the last thing it looked was shadowy. The surface was gleaming with pure white and even purer gold.</s>You might have thought that no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance.</s>no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance | BNC-1292 | 1,012 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | suggest | Emily - she seemed to be her own mistress, despite the grand connections - would surely not refuse an honest offer. Yet he was not, at present, in a position to make one. | they should become engaged | Perhaps when she had recovered from this encounter he could suggest that they become engaged albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her. | AB | modal | future | [
"2",
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"2",
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] | Emily - she seemed to be her own mistress, despite the grand connections - would surely not refuse an honest offer. Yet he was not, at present, in a position to make one.</s>Perhaps when she had recovered from this encounter he could suggest that they become engaged albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her.</s>they should become engaged | BNC-1116 | 430 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | mean | The men surrounding them were squat and dark, their expressions callous and indifferent. They were just doing their job. | a woman had to suffer | If it meant a woman had to suffer that was no concern of theirs. | conditional | present | [
"1",
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"3",
"0",
"2",
"1",
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] | The men surrounding them were squat and dark, their expressions callous and indifferent. They were just doing their job.</s>If it meant a woman had to suffer that was no concern of theirs.</s>a woman had to suffer | BNC-251 | 3,336 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | think | George decided to plunge. | Mr Nightingale was one of the List | He had already given away too much if Mr Nightingale himself was one of the List but George didn't think he was simply because he had been too easy to find. | negation | present | [
"0",
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] | George decided to plunge.</s>He had already given away too much if Mr Nightingale himself was one of the List but George didn't think he was simply because he had been too easy to find.</s>Mr Nightingale was one of the List | BNC-2016 | 2,539 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | assume | Obviously he did not make himself known so we can only speculate as to who he was watching, but we are all hoping that Trevor Proby will soon get the call. Likewise, supporters have reported to me that a well known, flamboyant Football League Premier Division chairman has been seen at ``The Tip''. | the well known flamboyant Football League Premier Division chairman is not spying on players | We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent. | DE | modal | present | [
"2",
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] | Obviously he did not make himself known so we can only speculate as to who he was watching, but we are all hoping that Trevor Proby will soon get the call. Likewise, supporters have reported to me that a well known, flamboyant Football League Premier Division chairman has been seen at ``The Tip''.</s>We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent.</s>the well known flamboyant Football League Premier Division chairman is not spying on players | BNC-583 | 4,133 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | notice | What must it be like to be imprisoned here, day after day, month after month? I wonder, does he keep them chained and manacled, thought Fenella, or does he use sorcery? | Fenella was weighing sorcery against steel chains | And so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome. | negation | present | [
"3",
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] | What must it be like to be imprisoned here, day after day, month after month? I wonder, does he keep them chained and manacled, thought Fenella, or does he use sorcery?</s>And so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome.</s>Fenella was weighing sorcery against steel chains | BNC-1667 | 1,895 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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34XASH8KLQRKK7MW216YEJ4Z9N8MPB | think | It's where the bands practise. I can't remember what band Petra's in, but I seen them practise once. | Petra's band was brilliant | They were OK but I didn't think they was brilliant. | negation | past | [
"-3",
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] | It's where the bands practise. I can't remember what band Petra's in, but I seen them practise once.</s>They were OK but I didn't think they was brilliant.</s>Petra's band was brilliant | BNC-2154 | 2,788 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | guess | His mother driving the car, so happy, young-looking and fashionably dressed and his father, a big, confident man in a smart suit, smiling and turning round to say something to Simon in the back seat. Marie thought of her own mother with her frumpy clothes and ageing, lined face. | Marie's mother was only forty-two | No one would have guessed that she was only forty-two. | EP | negation | present | [
"3",
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] | His mother driving the car, so happy, young-looking and fashionably dressed and his father, a big, confident man in a smart suit, smiling and turning round to say something to Simon in the back seat. Marie thought of her own mother with her frumpy clothes and ageing, lined face.</s>No one would have guessed that she was only forty-two.</s>Marie's mother was only forty-two | BNC-1431 | 1,285 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | feel | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance. They always made Sophia think how much more Mark would be appreciated in a different sort of parish, though she never said anything about it now. | Mark's work lay here | If he felt that his work lay here it was not for her to question his decision but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind. | conditional | present | [
"0",
"3",
"1",
"-1",
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] | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance. They always made Sophia think how much more Mark would be appreciated in a different sort of parish, though she never said anything about it now.</s>If he felt that his work lay here it was not for her to question his decision but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind.</s>Mark's work lay here | BNC-67 | 4,485 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | know | Did you know that? Pluto... the God of Hades. | the planet Saturn is associated with lead | Did you know that the planet Saturn is associated with lead? | question | present | [
"2",
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"3",
"2",
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] | Did you know that? Pluto... the God of Hades.</s>Did you know that the planet Saturn is associated with lead?</s>the planet Saturn is associated with lead | BNC-2397 | 3,131 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | find | However, a lie might not be necessary. After all, something must have made me do it, pointless and unjustified as it seemed now. | the truth didn't condemn her out of hand | Perhaps if I went over it all again carefully I could find out that the truth didn't condemn me out of hand. | AB | modal | future | [
"0",
"0",
"3",
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"1"
] | However, a lie might not be necessary. After all, something must have made me do it, pointless and unjustified as it seemed now.</s>Perhaps if I went over it all again carefully I could find out that the truth didn't condemn me out of hand.</s>the truth didn't condemn her out of hand | BNC-681 | 4,508 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | realize | ``Lucky you. Well, she's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury, and she wants Hayley to go back.'' | Hayley was so ill and could die. | She didn't realise Hayley was so ill and could die. | negation | past | [
"2",
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] | ``Lucky you. Well, she's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury, and she wants Hayley to go back.''</s>She didn't realise Hayley was so ill and could die.</s>Hayley was so ill and could die. | BNC-1724 | 2,060 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | suspect | Unlike Aunt Kit, who believed it to be a barbaric rite, intolerable between reasonable men and women, Aunt Lilian, the headmistress, simply felt it her duty to point out that a career - any career - would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children. (Though in fact she would not have said ``lumbered'', not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view, but because she was an honourable and exact woman.) | Aunt Lilian had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries | If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state since she had no personal experience of it.) | conditional | past | [
"-1",
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"0",
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"-3",
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] | Unlike Aunt Kit, who believed it to be a barbaric rite, intolerable between reasonable men and women, Aunt Lilian, the headmistress, simply felt it her duty to point out that a career - any career - would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children. (Though in fact she would not have said ``lumbered'', not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view, but because she was an honourable and exact woman.)</s>If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state since she had no personal experience of it.)</s>Aunt Lilian had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries | BNC-412 | 3,776 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -1 | 5-1
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | say | He said his name was Paul Berowne. I'm afraid it didn't mean anything to me at the time. | Paul was an MP or a baronet | He didn't say he was an MP or a baronet nothing like that. | negation | past | [
"0",
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] | He said his name was Paul Berowne. I'm afraid it didn't mean anything to me at the time.</s>He didn't say he was an MP or a baronet nothing like that.</s>Paul was an MP or a baronet | BNC-1762 | 2,122 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | mean | Polly met his troubled gaze. | part of Polly died | She had to hear it from his own lips even if it meant that part of her died. | conditional | present | [
"1",
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"1",
"3",
"0",
"1",
"0",
"-3"
] | Polly met his troubled gaze.</s>She had to hear it from his own lips even if it meant that part of her died.</s>part of Polly died | BNC-249 | 3,287 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | say | They look at Riva, she looks at them. Everybody blushes so hard you'd think there were roses round the cottage door. | she is enchanted with this sugary scene | I can't say I'm enchanted with this sugary scene. | negation | present | [
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | admit | What my source was up to, I have no idea. | Mrs Thatcher had been wrong about something | All I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado. | EP | modal | future | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | notice | And, such is trust, they went on seeing it after it had gone, for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money. Each banker took it to be part of some Brand strategy of which he was privileged to see, and be entrusted with, but a small portion. | there was now more ebb than flow | They did not notice that there was now more ebb than flow. | negation | present | [
"2",
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | suspect | ``One of the old school,'' Ramsbum kept intoning. ``God knows what'll happen to us now.'' | Ramsburn was seriously feeling grief | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief. | CI | modal | present | [
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | mean | As he lived in Bethnal Green, it was, but so was Hackney. Bunny, Martin and the other two girls decided to go for a meal in a Swedish restaurant Bunny said he knew in Lisson Grove, the Dead Zone between the Edgware Road and Lord's Cricket Ground. | Bunny once knew a Swedish waitress | I suspect Bunny probably meant that he once knew a Swedish waitress but I let it pass. | EP | modal | past | [
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | know | ``But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious. I'm sure you have noticed the implication of the letter, that the writer has in fact observed Jenny undressing for bed?'' | Jenny's bedroom's at the rear of the house | I just wondered if you also knew as I'm sure you do that her bedroom's at the rear of the house? | question | present | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | notice | He would get the film. He would draw the money out of the bank this time. | the money was gone | Elaine might notice it was gone but then again she might not. | EP | modal | future | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | know | I don't know what I envisaged happening once I 'd parted you and Peter. That I would step into the gap maybe. | he could feel machiavellian | I was positively machiavellian - I never knew I could feel like that. | negation | past | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | hope | I wondered if I should continue working with Joe in a plain, honest way of life, and perhaps marry Biddy. | Miss Havisham would make his fortune and marry him to Estella | Or dare I hope that Miss Havisham would make my fortune and marry me to Estella? | question | present | [
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | mean | That was then, and then's gone. It's now now. | she has done a sudden transformation | I don't mean I 've done a sudden transformation. | negation | present | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | know | Watching as he grinned up at the bus driver, said something and laughed, she felt a hollow ache inside. It had been a long time since she 'd laughed, joined in a joke, been silly just for the hell of it. | Leo wouldn't do anything so obliging as to walk off | Leo was probably fun to be with a great companion a good friend she thought then gave a wry chagrined smile as he turned towards her as though he 'd been aware of her presence all along - and she might have known he wouldn't do anything so obliging as to walk off. | CI | modal | past | [
"-3",
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | hope | Where Roman Wyatt was concerned she was like a snail without a shell. She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly. | when Roman had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way. | AB | modal | present | [
"-1",
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | feel | Why should this topic matter? You talked about everything else as you usually do. | Maelmuire is important | Why should I feel Maelmuire is important? | question | present | [
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32204AGAABHSFGSM8L0YS5IBTUHHGU | mean | Ari felt very old as she walked back to the group. It seemed that, all around her, things were changing - old, beloved routines that had felt safe and comfortable were decaying into new patterns. | Ari had to leave Star Eye | If by working with Roirbak it meant she had to leave Star Eye it might be for the best. | conditional | future | [
"0",
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | know | ``Willy did mention it. I was puzzled, I 'll admit, but now I understand.'' | Heather had been there | How did you know Heather had been there? | question | past | [
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] | ``Willy did mention it. I was puzzled, I 'll admit, but now I understand.''</s>How did you know Heather had been there?</s>Heather had been there | BNC-2388 | 3,119 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3L1EFR8WWTATMAE8ZP6OX3KB7IJF97 | say | Dynmouth was becoming a nasty kind of place.'' Poor Miss Poraway,'' Quentin said as they washed the tea dishes, and Lavinia - not feeling agreeably disposed towards Miss Poraway - did not say anything. | Lavinia was sorry now | She wished she could say she was sorry now not in the middle of the night when he was asleep. | AB | modal | present | [
"1",
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] | Dynmouth was becoming a nasty kind of place.'' Poor Miss Poraway,'' Quentin said as they washed the tea dishes, and Lavinia - not feeling agreeably disposed towards Miss Poraway - did not say anything.</s>She wished she could say she was sorry now not in the middle of the night when he was asleep.</s>Lavinia was sorry now | BNC-1012 | 55 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3RWSQDNYL9R2NK5L2B6G7Z6MCZCFF1 | know | Flaubert delighted in their presence and gave them money. No doubt you wish to pat him on the head for this. | Flaubert was gaining the approval of the future | If he 'd known he was gaining the approval of the future he 'd probably have kept the money to himself. | conditional | past | [
"2",
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | think | ``Oh, yes. It's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs,'' said Caspar, rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag. | Casper had to say he hoped Floy and Snodgrass were all right | He did not say that he hoped Floy and Snodgrass were all right because he did not think he had to say it. | negation | present | [
"-2",
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | mean | He was so very young, so hurt and confused by all that had happened in his life, it seemed only natural that he should want to lash out. And if it was her he was lashing out at, so be it. | Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that in the end Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away. | conditional | present | [
"0",
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] | He was so very young, so hurt and confused by all that had happened in his life, it seemed only natural that he should want to lash out. And if it was her he was lashing out at, so be it.</s>She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that in the end Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away.</s>Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away | BNC-237 | 3,095 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | notice | This was the back of the shelter. It had an emergency exit which they all had a go at unbolting. | Willie's knees were being licked | Willie was so absorbed that he didn't notice that his knees were being licked and unconsciously he rested his hand on the back of Sammy's neck. | negation | present | [
"3",
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] | This was the back of the shelter. It had an emergency exit which they all had a go at unbolting.</s>Willie was so absorbed that he didn't notice that his knees were being licked and unconsciously he rested his hand on the back of Sammy's neck.</s>Willie's knees were being licked | BNC-1659 | 1,856 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | tell | Imagine if, for instance, we could get him standing up in public, get him photographed, on newsreel, all around the world, saying that we were fighting a just war, that Hitler was insane, that we had to win. Imagine him appealing to America to come in quickly, fight the good fight with us, shoulder to shoulder. | Hitler was going to turn against the Russians | Imagine if he told the Russians that Hitler was going to turn against them soon. | conditional | past | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | guess | It was hard to tell what time of day it was. The ground was too warm, Rostov was sure, for it to be morning. | the time of day was mid to late afternoon | But since he had only a vague idea about the length of the Tarvaras day he could only guess from the position of the sun and the length of the shadows that it was mid to late afternoon. | AB | modal | present | [
"-2",
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] | It was hard to tell what time of day it was. The ground was too warm, Rostov was sure, for it to be morning.</s>But since he had only a vague idea about the length of the Tarvaras day he could only guess from the position of the sun and the length of the shadows that it was mid to late afternoon.</s>the time of day was mid to late afternoon | BNC-717 | 4,581 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | notice | ``I just want to show you something.'' He took her protesting hand, and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies. | the thick roll of tablecloths was there | She had been so busy avoiding touching him she had not even noticed it was there. | negation | past | [
"3",
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] | ``I just want to show you something.'' He took her protesting hand, and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies.</s>She had been so busy avoiding touching him she had not even noticed it was there.</s>the thick roll of tablecloths was there | BNC-1673 | 1,921 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | believe | He's got a bee in his bonnet about keeping them out of remand homes and prison. I'm not against that, but you can't leave young thugs loose to go round terrorising honest folk. | young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong | As far as I can make out Deanes doesn't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong. | negation | present | [
"0",
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] | He's got a bee in his bonnet about keeping them out of remand homes and prison. I'm not against that, but you can't leave young thugs loose to go round terrorising honest folk.</s>As far as I can make out Deanes doesn't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong.</s>young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong | BNC-1323 | 1,084 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | suggest | She was pouring a cup of tea when the solution came to her. As a member of the editorial collective of Fem Sap, it was part of her job to commission occasional articles. | Jamie should write something for Fem Sap | She could ring Jamie and suggest that he write something for it. | AB | modal | future | [
"0",
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] | She was pouring a cup of tea when the solution came to her. As a member of the editorial collective of Fem Sap, it was part of her job to commission occasional articles.</s>She could ring Jamie and suggest that he write something for it.</s>Jamie should write something for Fem Sap | BNC-1111 | 408 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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3L1EFR8WWTATMAE8ZP6OX3KB7IJF97 | forget | Yet what good came from knowing that a woman had killed herself? The children who had suffered a trauma would survive the experience, scarred by it and a little flawed by it. | for a week the children had imagined the act of murder had been committed | They would never forget that for a week they had imagined the act of murder had been committed. | negation | future | [
"3",
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] | Yet what good came from knowing that a woman had killed herself? The children who had suffered a trauma would survive the experience, scarred by it and a little flawed by it.</s>They would never forget that for a week they had imagined the act of murder had been committed.</s>for a week the children had imagined the act of murder had been committed | BNC-1408 | 1,244 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3W0KKJIARRE4ORNCV8R7DKH5XRGK8R | believe | Just knowing they are there in the bag is as comforting as Victor finds his cheroots. I can already feel the shape of one resting in my palm. | his first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard | I could believe my first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard. | AB | modal | present | [
"1",
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] | Just knowing they are there in the bag is as comforting as Victor finds his cheroots. I can already feel the shape of one resting in my palm.</s>I could believe my first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard.</s>his first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard | BNC-618 | 4,303 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | know | We start by assuming that the telephone call to Mrs. Bidwell and Lorrimer's death are connected. That means the call was made by the murderer or an accomplice. | Mr. Lorrimer's appointment had been cancelled | We 'll keep an open mind about the caller's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell but it was probably a woman probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday and who didn't know that the appointment had been cancelled. | negation | present | [
"3",
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] | We start by assuming that the telephone call to Mrs. Bidwell and Lorrimer's death are connected. That means the call was made by the murderer or an accomplice.</s>We 'll keep an open mind about the caller's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell but it was probably a woman probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday and who didn't know that the appointment had been cancelled.</s>Mr. Lorrimer's appointment had been cancelled | BNC-1541 | 1,597 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | think | Feargal's censure, Phena's bitterness - a hell of a burden to carry all your adult life. And it must be a burden, knowing that your family thought you a cheat, knowing that you had hurt them, and would continue to hurt them until you died. | Ellie would have had that sort of courage | Ellie didn't think she would have had that sort of courage. | negation | present | [
"1",
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] | Feargal's censure, Phena's bitterness - a hell of a burden to carry all your adult life. And it must be a burden, knowing that your family thought you a cheat, knowing that you had hurt them, and would continue to hurt them until you died.</s>Ellie didn't think she would have had that sort of courage.</s>Ellie would have had that sort of courage | BNC-2022 | 2,566 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | believe | As Jenna waited to be collected in Paris she began to think that this was not a good idea after all. It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first, and yet here she was, waiting for Alain Lemarchand, butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick. | Jenna had allowed this to happen | It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now as she stood there in the spring sunshine she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
"0",
"2",
"1",
"3",
"3",
"2",
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] | As Jenna waited to be collected in Paris she began to think that this was not a good idea after all. It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first, and yet here she was, waiting for Alain Lemarchand, butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick.</s>It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now as she stood there in the spring sunshine she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen.</s>Jenna had allowed this to happen | BNC-611 | 4,290 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | notice | ``What do you mean she disappeared?'' | Karel was repeating himself | It was a measure of his upset that Karel didn't even notice he was repeating himself. | negation | present | [
"3",
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"3",
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] | ``What do you mean she disappeared?''</s>It was a measure of his upset that Karel didn't even notice he was repeating himself.</s>Karel was repeating himself | BNC-1688 | 1,998 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | tell | The Susweca. It means ``dragonfly'' in Sioux, you know. | Susweca is where she and Paul met | Did I ever tell you that's where Paul and I met? | question | past | [
"3",
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] | The Susweca. It means ``dragonfly'' in Sioux, you know.</s>Did I ever tell you that's where Paul and I met?</s>Susweca is where she and Paul met | BNC-2630 | 3,463 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | think | She shivered. The letter had definitely stated that she was to be met. | the coach was not coming | But if they thought the coach was not coming... Before she had quite given in to despair however from out of the doorway of the inn came a dour old man in ancient shabby livery with shiny elbows and tarnished braid. | conditional | past | [
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3D1TUISJWI5BGT41Y870WWKH2FFUI4 | imagine | Meh ' Lindi did not develop the lower set of arms nor the bony, sinuous tail. Too much to expect a new pair of arms to grow out of her ribs, or her coccyx to elongate so enormously. | Meh ' Lindi could attain the full strength of a purestrain Stealer | Nor could Jaq imagine that she could attain the full strength of a purestrain Stealer - though her own strength was formidable even when unenhanced. | AB | modal | present | [
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | think | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him, so I told him his English was very good. It was just average really. | she was just a harmless English eccentric | I wonder whether he thought it was just the way the English talked or whether he thought I was peculiar... Yes I suppose you're right he probably thought I was just a harmless English eccentric! | EP | modal | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | say | But to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations - that is, the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country - was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre. Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements, overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions, so that the men who had died - my brother among them - had died quite needlessly. | the manoeuvre caused something of an uproar at the time | In view of what I am about to relate it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting. | conditional | present | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | forget | They were baroque symbols reinforcing the lush imagination of the theatre. But the drama on its own wasn't enough, or great performances, or symbols. | it was the audience's patronage and the audience's applause which truly kept the theatre alive | They the audience were what mattered for it should never be forgotten that it was their patronage and their applause which truly kept the theatre alive. | negation | present | [
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | decide | The marriage she had assumed naively would be the end of every serious relationship now seemed a very distant - if not unreachable - shore. Whereas Luke was very near, and the feelings he aroused in her were like an undertow, pulling her down. | Luke had waited long enough | If - when - he decided he had waited long enough she was far from certain what her response would be. | conditional | future | [
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3ABAOCJ4R895KJNB2ELNEOU9G2XMQ9 | think | And she fished a small parcel from her pocket, and showed Sally-Anne her treasure just as the horse bus finally groaned up - or neighed up, thought Sally-Anne irreverently. | Sally-Anne would ever travel on a horse bus | She had never thought that she would ever travel on such a thing although she could not tell Rose that. | negation | past | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | say | That day it all came out. Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel-as she was very very upset, my grandmother-but Constanza was too late. | the grandmother died of moral shock | You could say that she died of... moral shock. | CI | modal | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | suspect | And why bother to write anyway? What was there to say? | Adam was down here | Mary had some vague idea that Adam's parents might suspect he was down here and come to see him. | EP | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | see | And if anyone had noticed, maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way. ``Oh, that... it's nothing much...'' No, it's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern. | any weakness was pounced upon by the other boys | I was aware what could happen I could see that any weakness was pounced upon by the other boys and I knew that I wasn't big enough or belligerent enough to bully my way out of it. | AB | modal | past | [
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