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3W0KKJIARRE4ORNCV8R7DKH5XRGK8R | think | He pulled occasionally, his arms tiring. Conker slowed a little, but the branches were coming too fast, he had to lean right forward and couldn't use his hands. | Conker could jump the gate | He remembered the gate at the end of the track had time to hope it was open because he didn't think Conker could jump it. | negation | present | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | say | I was very surprised by all this. | she was going too | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London but he had not said that I was going too. | negation | past | [
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | say | How do you know? she was going to ask, but his smile was answer enough. | there was going to be a vacancy | If DeVore said there was going to be a vacancy there would be a vacancy. | conditional | present | [
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | notice | She was very tired. Every day that week she had got up at five. | they were riding off the main road and into The Chase the oldest wood in England | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase the oldest wood in England. | negation | present | [
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | hope | To get four miles they covered twenty, and they took nearly two hours. Edward was sweating lightly when they walked into the house. | Hannele would be there | Perhaps he had hoped that Hannele would be there miraculously. | EP | modal | past | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | tell | Chopra stood unsteadily on his feet. The shapechanger bounded around with excitement. | something had happened | Chopra could tell something had happened. | AB | modal | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | imagine | Had Nigel noticed she 'd left, or hadn't he missed her at all? If he had been aware that she 'd gone, he would probably have assumed that someone else had taken her home. | Nigel would have worried about it | She didn't imagine he 'd have worried about it. | negation | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V6CK4E | tell | ``I think I have it all now, Mr Robinson.'' Mary almost laughed aloud at Hope's tolerant gravity. | Mr. Robinson had also to hold the rod in his hand and drop the line into the water | If her father had told him that he had also to hold the rod in his hand and drop the line into the water she would not have been surprised. | conditional | past | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | understand | The producer's credit was for Robert Forbes, Jo's father and Lorna's husband, who sat beside his wife, his long, elegant legs half-hidden in the ultramarine satin folds of her skirt. Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man, the more so in any kind of formal dress. | Robert Forbes' title of producer was merely honorary | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary. | negation | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | think | You could have both gone direct to England from New York. But you wanted to come up this way. | this is cold | If you think this is cold you wait till we hit Greenland. | conditional | present | [
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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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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | imagine | She wanted to run her fingers through his hair, wanted to nuzzle her nose and chin into his neck, wanted to know the texture of his cheek and jaw, wanted to kiss him so that her lips never forgot the shape of his. Then she found she was doing all this already, and a sigh of utter contentment shivered through her. | a kiss could feel like this | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this that a man's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees. | negation | past | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | think | At the sight of him I would smell the dust of the confessional and remember the mixture of boredom, shame and relief as I said my penances. I was familiar with the view that the priesthood is beyond shock, being entirely cognisant of the whole sum of human folly and evil from the outpourings of the penitent, but I wasn't convinced. | he admitted to fornication | I also had a feeling that my mother would never forgive me if she thought I had admitted to fornication and worse to a person who came to her house and drank her sherry. | conditional | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | prove | My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism. But it's not pointless in terms of pleasure. | lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics | I can't prove that lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics. | negation | present | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | see | Biddy was right. In London, I did some serious thinking. | his character had not improved since he had heard about his expectations | I could see that my character had not improved since I had heard about my expectations. | AB | modal | present | [
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3RSBJ6YZECVWTXIE1EP6UTF043COFB | find | That's why he's locked up. I don't want him to know we 've got divers aboard and I especially don't want him to see me taking off with divers in the general direction of the Delos. | there was no spare tank | If we find that there was no spare tank we shall have to keep an even closer eye on him. | conditional | future | [
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | know | It can't really be alive. It's not really about to bite me. | there was a monster about to bite her | Dorcas wouldn't have brought me in here if he knew there was a monster about to bite me. | conditional | past | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | say | At this time of year not much, it's been a dryish summer, and there's not a lot of water coming down. Say half a knot - and that's probably an over-estimate. | a freely-floating body moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots | If you say that a freely-floating body - and the weights would help a bit there because they'd keep it under water and out of any wind - moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots you'd not be far wrong. | conditional | present | [
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | admit | Polly had to think quickly. | Polly was not an experienced ocean sailor | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor. | conditional | future | [
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3HRWUH63QU7M9FPDUNCKTSOIPXC5N9 | hope | The mother had taken a house by the sea for a month for her daughter's health and it turned out to be an Indian summer that year. When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland, out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was, the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it. | moving the girl right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself. | AB | modal | present | [
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | imagine | Matthew rode on feeling a little more at peace with himself. He skirted the spruce plantation and supposed that at some point he should tell Sara about it. | Sara might be interested in its money-making propensity at the end of the year | He could imagine that she might be interested in its money-making propensity at the end of the year. | AB | modal | present | [
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3W0KKJIARRE4ORNCV8R7DKH5XRGK8R | know | I said you were mad to come over at this time. It's a world event. | Venice is packed with visitors | Don't you know that Venice is packed with visitors? | question | present | [
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3ABAOCJ4R895KJNB2ELNEOU9G2XMQ9 | know | The slaves continued their stoking, shuffling to and from the cart, heaving the beech logs into the next furnace. The Robemaker moved forward, prodding Nuadu onwards and, as they moved down the centre of the Workshop, the blazing furnaces roaring on each side of them, Nuadu felt his skin already shrivelling from the heat. | there was no end to working here | How must it be to work here day after day month after month knowing there was no end to it? | question | present | [
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | imagine | I was emotionally devastated, but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me, to pay my bills, to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had. | she would want to go back to Helmut | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him. | AB | modal | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | know | Tess used to rest her head on the cow's body, her eyes fixed on a distant field. The sun shone on the beautiful lines of her face. | Clare had followed Tess around and sat watching her | She did not know that Clare had followed her round and sat watching her. | negation | present | [
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3HRWUH63QU7M9FPDUNCKTSOIPXC5N9 | think | There was still the hard edge of annoyance in his voice and Jenna gulped back tears. This was not what she had intended. | Jenna would see Alain | She had never thought she would see Alain. | negation | past | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | believe | He hadn't recognised the ageing, twisted features of Pat Weaver, as the man on the bike had cycled lazily past. Nor had the CI5 man who was trailing Stone... Minutes before, as Stone had slipped surreptitiously from his house, his furtive movement had been picked up by Dan Monteith, stationed at the front of the house, concealed in a neighbouring garden. | Stone had slipped quietly away to the phone box | If Stone believed he had slipped quietly away to the phone box he had underestimated - or forgotten - the pursuit abilities of CI5. | conditional | past | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | suspect | Still missing. Found dead. | the headline had already been selected | Charlotte could almost suspect the headline had already been selected the outcome already determined. | CI | modal | present | [
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | insist | And how deeply she wished she could feel the confidence impressed upon her voice as she added with forced lightness, ``Apart from any other consideration, I still have a wet dog to find.'' Unconvinced, shaking her grey curls under the mob-cap, Mrs Tillotson did as she was bidden. | the drapes should be further drawn | The bedroom was insufferably dark though if he insisted that the drapes should be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky. | conditional | future | [
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | suggest | On the wall was a framed Miro. What kind of boy, Pumfrey marvelled, would choose a picture like that to decorate his room? | the exercise books the scrapbook and the diary were going to be fruitful | When he left he took a pile of exercise books a scrapbook and a diary but a first glance at their contents did not suggest that they were going to be fruitful. | negation | present | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | tell | I'm such a coward, I hear things that aren't there. She set her lips and dragged Adam out of the fire, hooking one of his arms round her neck. | Adam didn't know what was happening to him | He leaned on her not wholly unconscious but she could tell he didn't know what was happening to him. | AB | modal | present | [
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | suggest | Still, she could get started on a draft. She took out her pocket recorder and began dictating. | Agnes was not security-minded | If somebody had suggested to Agnes that she was not security-minded she would just have stared at them. | conditional | past | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | guess | ``For God's sake keep them in their seats. If we get panic people are going to be crushed to death and there will be mayhem in the car park.'' | the situation was very very serious | The announcer could only guess from the urgency in the Chief Constable's voice that the situation was very very serious. | AB | modal | present | [
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | say | Part of it was to be compulsorily purchased. You could say that Gustave was shepherded into creative retreat at Croisset by epilepsy. | Gustave was driven to creative retreat in Croisset by the railway | You could also say he was driven there by the railway. | CI | modal | present | [
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | remember | She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters, though never about her father's past. Now, I knew some French. | he spent some time in Paris | You may remember I spent some time in Paris - not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon. | EP | modal | present | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | notice | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper, ``Will he become even more difficult?'' She wondered if a stranger could tell that he was difficult, just by looking at him. | resentment lay just under Peter's skin | Would such a person watching Peter now reading the prayers of Rite B in his level pleasant voice notice that resentment lay like his blood just under his skin because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to? | question | present | [
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | hope | The woman paused and stared at her suspiciously. ``If the constable is coming anyway what have I to lose by giving you a good pasting and throwing the boots in the canal?'' | Hari's nervousness didn't show | ``A great deal '' Hari spoke with more confidence than she felt indeed she was trembling inside and she could only hope her nervousness didn't show. | AB | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | see | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night. I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door. | the residents used extra thick curtains | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains maybe left-overs from the Blackout. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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] | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night. I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door.</s>That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains maybe left-overs from the Blackout.</s>the residents used extra thick curtains | BNC-1100 | 378 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | think | Children aren't real people, in the sense that they are not small males and females but a separate species which will (probably) grow into one or the other in due time. Younger children in particular, before the insidious and evil influence of society and their parents have properly got to them, are sexlessly open and hence perfectly likeable. | Esmerelda's name was a bit soppy | I did like Esmerelda (even if I thought her name was a bit soppy) and played with her a lot when she came to stay. | conditional | past | [
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | say | It was a complex language. Not written down but handed down. | the language was peeled down | One might say it was peeled down. | CI | modal | present | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | notice | ``Perhaps,'' said Neil. ``Her name is Maybelle Foy - Stair says that she is not very pretty, but is enormously rich.'' | McAllister had gone very still | For once Dr Neil engrossed in drinking his coffee did not notice that McAllister had gone very still. | negation | present | [
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] | ``Perhaps,'' said Neil. ``Her name is Maybelle Foy - Stair says that she is not very pretty, but is enormously rich.''</s>For once Dr Neil engrossed in drinking his coffee did not notice that McAllister had gone very still.</s>McAllister had gone very still | BNC-1661 | 1,867 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | suppose | He came up with them to Four on the first floor, Tom's room. This irritated Alice. | Tom and Alice were lovers | Peter might have supposed that they were lovers from Tom's ardour and her acquiescence might have thought it not just tactful but a requirement to leave them alone together. | AB | modal | present | [
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3ULIZ0H1VAAJV8IOP0EMWLBFMXG51C | suspect | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds, and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane. No loose ends. | Sandor too was scheduled for termination | The words had been Sandor's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task. | conditional | past | [
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32204AGAABHSFGSM8L0YS5IBTUHHGU | think | But first Zosie had come. Rufus, driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian, picked her off the street - ``a piece of property that is found ownerless''. | Zosie's wishes had been consulted | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room it being taken for granted she would share his bed though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted. | negation | present | [
"-1",
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] | But first Zosie had come. Rufus, driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian, picked her off the street - ``a piece of property that is found ownerless''.</s>And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room it being taken for granted she would share his bed though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted.</s>Zosie's wishes had been consulted | BNC-2009 | 2,506 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | tell | He trusted the captains of his ships, he trusted his trading partners in the East, in the Indian Ocean, over the Atlantic, around the African coast. His clerks, his associates in Liverpool, his bank, his builders, his carpenters, those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes - Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust. | the prime sources of Mr. Crump's immense and mathematically infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation cruelty oppression barbarism murder and vicious wrongdoing | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and mathematically infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation cruelty oppression barbarism murder and vicious wrongdoing he would have been at first amazed then outraged and finally contemptuous disbelieving the information. | conditional | past | [
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] | He trusted the captains of his ships, he trusted his trading partners in the East, in the Indian Ocean, over the Atlantic, around the African coast. His clerks, his associates in Liverpool, his bank, his builders, his carpenters, those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes - Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust.</s>If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and mathematically infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation cruelty oppression barbarism murder and vicious wrongdoing he would have been at first amazed then outraged and finally contemptuous disbelieving the information.</s>the prime sources of Mr. Crump's immense and mathematically infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation cruelty oppression barbarism murder and vicious wrongdoing | BNC-422 | 3,817 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | forget | He didn't say he loved her but,'' I think we're going to love each other, Lyn.'' From the pulled and sagging pockets of his jacket, his Sunday-go-to-meetings suit, his only suit, Dadda produced a cairngorm and silver ring for Lyn and a pearl-handled Stilton knife for Stephen. | the following day would be the sixth anniversary of Lyn and Stephen's engagement | Though they might have forgotten that the following day would be the sixth anniversary of their engagement he with his prodigious memory had not. | EP | modal | past | [
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] | He didn't say he loved her but,'' I think we're going to love each other, Lyn.'' From the pulled and sagging pockets of his jacket, his Sunday-go-to-meetings suit, his only suit, Dadda produced a cairngorm and silver ring for Lyn and a pearl-handled Stilton knife for Stephen.</s>Though they might have forgotten that the following day would be the sixth anniversary of their engagement he with his prodigious memory had not.</s>the following day would be the sixth anniversary of Lyn and Stephen's engagement | BNC-703 | 4,525 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | say | But even as he spoke he doubted if Excepcionales Chicas would, when the plain Excepcionales was a stand-by, his favourite being Albeans or Invincibles. She turned and faced him again and on a high note she said, ``We have a few Dominicoes.'' | the few Dominicoes were a sample of five | She did not say it was a sample of five. | negation | present | [
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] | But even as he spoke he doubted if Excepcionales Chicas would, when the plain Excepcionales was a stand-by, his favourite being Albeans or Invincibles. She turned and faced him again and on a high note she said, ``We have a few Dominicoes.''</s>She did not say it was a sample of five.</s>the few Dominicoes were a sample of five | BNC-1756 | 2,110 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -3 | 4-3
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3HRWUH63QU7M9FPDUNCKTSOIPXC5N9 | think | Those people... Not a one of them realized I was not human. They looked at me and they pretend I'm someone called Franz Kafka. | he was Franz Kafka | Maybe they really thought I was Franz Kafka. | EP | modal | present | [
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] | Those people... Not a one of them realized I was not human. They looked at me and they pretend I'm someone called Franz Kafka.</s>Maybe they really thought I was Franz Kafka.</s>he was Franz Kafka | BNC-1236 | 862 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -3 | 4-3
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | say | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat. It was he, Clasper, who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products, regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards. | three men had to be employed to do two men's work | If in effect Clasper said that three men must be employed to do two men's work then that was it. | conditional | present | [
"2",
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] | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat. It was he, Clasper, who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products, regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards.</s>If in effect Clasper said that three men must be employed to do two men's work then that was it.</s>three men had to be employed to do two men's work | BNC-326 | 3,576 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | pretend | Powerlessness. Hope and no-hope, both at the same time. | this doctoring business came as a total surprise | Well I can't pretend that this doctoring business came as a total surprise. | negation | present | [
"-3",
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] | Powerlessness. Hope and no-hope, both at the same time.</s>Well I can't pretend that this doctoring business came as a total surprise.</s>this doctoring business came as a total surprise | BNC-1707 | 2,033 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -3 | 4-3
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | notice | After the twelfth dot, two thirds of the way down the page, the transcript of this long session tails away into blank paper. I suppose what's happened is this. | the tape had run out | He has gone on staring out of the window thinking and she has gone on staring at him waiting with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out. | negation | present | [
"1",
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] | After the twelfth dot, two thirds of the way down the page, the transcript of this long session tails away into blank paper. I suppose what's happened is this.</s>He has gone on staring out of the window thinking and she has gone on staring at him waiting with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out.</s>the tape had run out | BNC-1674 | 1,929 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | notice | ``And you're wrong about us. We're not children and I 'd say we're learning the rules pretty quickly.'' | he's not shaking any more | You may have noticed I'm not shaking any more! | EP | modal | past | [
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] | ``And you're wrong about us. We're not children and I 'd say we're learning the rules pretty quickly.''</s>You may have noticed I'm not shaking any more!</s>he's not shaking any more | BNC-908 | 5,219 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | say | He looked at me questioningly. | she minded like hell | I wished I could say yes I minded like hell it wouldn't cost me much in the circumstances. | AB | modal | present | [
"2",
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"-1",
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] | He looked at me questioningly.</s>I wished I could say yes I minded like hell it wouldn't cost me much in the circumstances.</s>she minded like hell | BNC-1031 | 115 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | understand | I looked at the mouth of the mother of the girl whose mouth I couldn't get enough of kissing. I looked and I looked. | other people might take them for mother and daughter | But while I saw similarities (the forehead the set of the eyes) while I could understand that other people might take them for mother and daughter it didn't work for me. | AB | modal | present | [
"-3",
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] | I looked at the mouth of the mother of the girl whose mouth I couldn't get enough of kissing. I looked and I looked.</s>But while I saw similarities (the forehead the set of the eyes) while I could understand that other people might take them for mother and daughter it didn't work for me.</s>other people might take them for mother and daughter | BNC-1294 | 1,018 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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311HQEI8RSLVD8HFL42BMZ9NQHF7Z7 | hear | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you. He obviously knew something about Mahoney's blackmail racket, and figured the girl would be in on it. | Mahoney had a chance | He probably heard on the radio that Mahoney had a chance so he took a stroll round to the hospital and finished him off. | EP | modal | past | [
"2",
"2",
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] | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you. He obviously knew something about Mahoney's blackmail racket, and figured the girl would be in on it.</s>He probably heard on the radio that Mahoney had a chance so he took a stroll round to the hospital and finished him off.</s>Mahoney had a chance | BNC-733 | 4,631 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | think | ``I 'd have done it long ago. Now, give me some beer, and don't poison it.'' | the warning was a necessary one | It was said as a joke but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin's face he might have thought the warning was a necessary one. | EP | modal | past | [
"-2",
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] | ``I 'd have done it long ago. Now, give me some beer, and don't poison it.''</s>It was said as a joke but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin's face he might have thought the warning was a necessary one.</s>the warning was a necessary one | BNC-1257 | 928 | A25YG9M911WA3T | -2 | 6-2
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | tell | She said good morning to Alice and Alice said hallo. She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde. | this was Tina's mother | She could also have told this was Tina's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster's Flat. | AB | modal | past | [
"3",
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"1",
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] | She said good morning to Alice and Alice said hallo. She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde.</s>She could also have told this was Tina's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster's Flat.</s>this was Tina's mother | BNC-1145 | 581 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 2 | 22
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3P0I4CQYVYCY4J49R3Z6YH10Z5UOWZ | say | When Matt married Inez I was left high and dry. A year later I met a sales rep for an agricultural firm and married him. | the marriage was on the rebound | You could say it was on the rebound but I had no reason to regret it. | CI | modal | present | [
"2",
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] | When Matt married Inez I was left high and dry. A year later I met a sales rep for an agricultural firm and married him.</s>You could say it was on the rebound but I had no reason to regret it.</s>the marriage was on the rebound | BNC-1055 | 181 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | tell | ``It's not your day, is it, dear?'' ``No, but they 've got to be done, and Shirley's making the tea.'' | Ianthe sometimes had to dust the books in the library | Ianthe had not told her mother that she sometimes had to dust the books in the library. | negation | past | [
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] | ``It's not your day, is it, dear?'' ``No, but they 've got to be done, and Shirley's making the tea.''</s>Ianthe had not told her mother that she sometimes had to dust the books in the library.</s>Ianthe sometimes had to dust the books in the library | BNC-1963 | 2,412 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 3 | 33
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | suspect | It sounded plausible, but the words were a little too pat for Lorton's liking. The solution was so convenient - and for someone in Tolby's position so tactful too. | Lorton had a hand in Newley's disappearance | Tolby might suspect that Lorton had a hand in Newley's disappearance despite the fact that he had unwittingly provided Lorton with a partial alibi for that Sunday. | EP | modal | future | [
"0",
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] | It sounded plausible, but the words were a little too pat for Lorton's liking. The solution was so convenient - and for someone in Tolby's position so tactful too.</s>Tolby might suspect that Lorton had a hand in Newley's disappearance despite the fact that he had unwittingly provided Lorton with a partial alibi for that Sunday.</s>Lorton had a hand in Newley's disappearance | BNC-1137 | 540 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | believe | As the man crossed the street and started work, Harry headed back into the college. He could believe some drunken classics student had run amok with a spray-can, but not that he had chanced to write two words of no classical significance beneath the window of the room where Harry happened to be staying. | Harry had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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] | As the man crossed the street and started work, Harry headed back into the college. He could believe some drunken classics student had run amok with a spray-can, but not that he had chanced to write two words of no classical significance beneath the window of the room where Harry happened to be staying.</s>Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured.</s>Harry had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see | BNC-587 | 4,172 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 1 | 11
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3ULIZ0H1VAAJV8IOP0EMWLBFMXG51C | notice | Nevertheless, her heart sank at the thought of spending an evening with him in his present state of mind, and she was tempted to invent a sore throat in order to get out of it. But he had been very helpful over the Puddephat business, she admitted to herself, and his moods were unpredictable - he might be on top of the world by the time he arrived at the cinema. | something was amiss | ``I'm still keen if you are '' she said brightly pretending she had not noticed anything was amiss. | negation | past | [
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3RWSQDNYL9R2NK5L2B6G7Z6MCZCFF1 | imagine | Folly tried to sink back inconspicuously into the soft leather seat and take stock. The results were unpromising. | Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping Folly in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination - and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ``fate worse than death'' since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble. | AB | 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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3ABAOCJ4R895KJNB2ELNEOU9G2XMQ9 | suppose | ``Of course, we can have a look, but I doubt we 'll find anything. In any case, it's not vital.'' | the coroner will make any problems about what happened | I don't suppose the coroner will make any problems about what happened. | negation | present | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | see | Alone in the big drawing-room where Annette's choice of bright fabrics had fought hardest, albeit still without winning against her dead in-laws ' passion for darkpanelled gloom Maxim went straight to the telephone. It was the same old-fashioned type as Miss Tuckey's and he unscrewed the mouthpiece carefully but found nothing extra inside. | the elaborate cornices and mouldings gave a myriad opportunities to a good wire man | Looking around he remembered it was difficult to plant bugs actually inside panelling but even his half-trained eye could see that the elaborate cornices and mouldings gave a myriad opportunities to a good wire man. | AB | modal | present | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | hear | What would be would be. Samantha might be back home by the early hours of Monday morning. | Samantha had walked into a police station | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day. | EP | modal | future | [
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3L1EFR8WWTATMAE8ZP6OX3KB7IJF97 | know | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true, and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies. Of course not. | the story wasn't true | In any case they don't know it wasn't true. | negation | past | [
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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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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | decide | Gold dust. He returned the other three books to the trunk and replaced the mattresses. | Carson wanted to see the other diaries | There would be no reason for the trunk to be disturbed and if Carson decided that he wanted to see the other diaries it would be a simple matter to get hold of them. | conditional | present | [
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3D1TUISJWI5BGT41Y870WWKH2FFUI4 | tell | By the next day we were ready to go to work. What tells me that this is right? | all the rest was wrong | What tells me that all the rest was wrong? | question | present | [
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | say | It was true that Robert had always liked pigs. | pigs were ``boring'' | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ``boring'' and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two. | conditional | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | suspect | ``If I tread too presumptuously into sacred places, reprove me,'' entreated the earl, with the submissive sweetness of a brand-new novice. Precious little chance of that happening, thought Hugh, listening and observing with a pleasure that recalled to mind some of his earliest and most tentative exchanges with Brother Cadfael, dealing trick for trick and dart for dart, and feeling their way over small battlefields to a lasting friendship. | the prior was being teased | The prior might possibly suspect that he was being teased for he was no fool but he would certainly not challenge or provoke a magnate of Robert Beaumont's stature. | EP | modal | present | [
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | imagine | Barak looked around the spacious hallway in awe. The three-tier Czechoslovakian crystal chandelier was the only reminder of its once resplendent grandeur. | the walls had once been lined with an array of expensive paintings or tapestries | He could imagine that the walls had once been lined with an array of expensive paintings or tapestries and the wooden floorboards covered with elegant sculpted carpeting. | AB | modal | present | [
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | believe | The meat tea was probably the answer. A big slice of ham, or grilled bacon, or a few sausages, and they could put a few extra on Benny's plate in case she felt the need of it. | Annabel had a daughter about to go to university | Annabel could hardly believe that she had a daughter about to go to university. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | believe | ``Bowled over,'' Graham said nervously, then wished he could gulp the words back somehow. Neither of the others seemed to think anything of it though. | Graham feeling bowled over wasn't obvious to every single person in the room | But he felt bowled over and could hardly believe it wasn't obvious to every single person in the room. | AB | modal | present | [
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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | pretend | Cecilia always left coming to Tina's until noon was past because she did not want to find her daughter in bed. Had she done so she would not have said a word, would not have looked a word, would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs. | Tina had been up for hours | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours and was a normal person and a proper mother. | AB | modal | present | [
"-2",
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3D1TUISJWI5BGT41Y870WWKH2FFUI4 | pretend | During this interlude, Charlotte reminded herself of the different bluffs and deceptions each was practising. Would Natasha admit she had known of Maurice's plan from the outset? | Natasha had never known anything about the letters | Or would she pretend she had never known anything about the letters? | question | future | [
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | think | He felt rather than saw the two girls glance at him appraisingly but took no notice. At just over six foot, with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry, Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it. | Tom's reflection was particularly handsome | He had never thought the reflection which looked back at him each morning from the shaving mirror was particularly handsome. | negation | past | [
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | tell | ``That's no problem,'' he grinned, unabashed. ``We have a perfectly efficient paging system, isn't that right, Niall?'' | Niall was furious | Lindsey saw the dark brow come down and from his thunderous expression could tell Niall was furious. | AB | modal | present | [
"2",
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | believe | I told you once before what I believe in, Michael Riven. I believe in friendship, also. | Michael Riven can aid this world by standing on his head | If you believe that you can aid this world by standing on your head then I will hold your ankles for you. | conditional | present | [
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32204AGAABHSFGSM8L0YS5IBTUHHGU | know | Why was the Provost angry? Why did the wild friend ride from Hamptonshire to Hungary? | all Tom said was true | And why was Tom denied by Edith Cove who knew that all he said was true? | question | past | [
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | believe | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort, but that wasn't why I was so delighted. It was because it was in Yorkshire. | he was back in Yorkshire | As we marched out of the station into the streets of Scarborough I could hardly believe I was back in Yorkshire. | AB | modal | present | [
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3QGHA0EA0J5ELPF0NYUKSX11QL6WBQ | know | She thought that he 'd not started to drink, but might at any moment. ``Tea's better for you than that stuff,'' she said pertly, as pert as the chit Angela Macleod had called her. | Neil's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him | She did not know that Neil's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him. | negation | present | [
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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 | [
"2",
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375VSR8FVWE5VR1UUI0HRG0NP9JRZU | say | Nevertheless, life went on as it always does. By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies. | the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had prospered | Indeed it could be said that they had prospered. | CI | modal | present | [
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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | tell | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance. Waiting in the airport she was suddenly aware of Nora striding towards her. | that Nora also felt that she was looking good | She was impressed by how elegant she looked and could tell by her cousin's walk that Nora also felt that she was looking good. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | feel | I saw the American woman kiss his hand. So she was an RC, too. | refreshment was appropriate to the place and time | No refreshment was offered not because Monsignor wished to be inhospitable but because he didn't feel it was appropriate to the place and time. | negation | present | [
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3L1EFR8WWTATMAE8ZP6OX3KB7IJF97 | say | I didn't understand some parts of your letter. I'm a woman, or rather a girl, and not clever. | women are not inferior to men | How can you say women are not inferior to men? | question | present | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | suppose | It seems the fellow carried out his task well enough - there are two corpses in the burial chest this morning. But who could say for certain? | another has gone with Will Slaughter | Will Slaughter has gone and one might suppose another has gone with him. | CI | modal | present | [
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3L1EFR8WWTATMAE8ZP6OX3KB7IJF97 | decide | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she wasn't here to wait on him - particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable. But she bit back the words. | she could stay | Perhaps if she made herself useful he might decide she could stay - for a while at least just until she got something else sorted out. | EP | modal | future | [
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] | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she wasn't here to wait on him - particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable. But she bit back the words.</s>Perhaps if she made herself useful he might decide she could stay - for a while at least just until she got something else sorted out.</s>she could stay | BNC-646 | 4,394 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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3HRWUH63QU7M9FPDUNCKTSOIPXC5N9 | imagine | ``You will see the house, child. You will see where he lived and worked and then we will discuss the future,'' Marguerite said with a finality that left Jenna astonished. | Marguerite could be at all assertive | She hadn't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive but she was being exactly that now and Alain had so far said nothing at all. | negation | past | [
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37PGLWGSJTBXDXZP4U3YQ9BJ0PMIK2 | tell | It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain for so long, but at last the doors of the Renault slammed and there was comparative silence. The engine was started up, revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road. | the car was being driven back up the hill towards Putna | John could tell that it was being driven back up the hill towards Putna. | AB | modal | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | feel | Joseph spat and spluttered blood. | the two teeth on either side were also loose | He had lost the two centre top teeth and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose. | AB | modal | present | [
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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | decide | Contrary to what he had suggested, Marc was a good, fast skier, and it was Sarella who had had difficulty in keeping up. But then she hadn't expected it to be any different. | being a world-champion tiddly-winks player was something worth taking up | He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up. | conditional | present | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | say | Some of them, like for instance the farm in Connecticut, are quite small. If I like a place I buy it. | buying places is a hobby | I guess you could say it's a hobby. | CI | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | hope | ``I hope you are settling down and the cat is well.'' This was a lie. | the cat was well | She did not hope the cat was well. | negation | past | [
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | guess | ``It's your own silly fault,'' Claire said. ``You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you.'' | he 'd get no sympathy from Claire | I might have guessed I 'd get no sympathy from Claire. | CI | modal | past | [
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3IH9TRB0FB4V7WD3WKXGLUFKRHLI1U | think | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really. It seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow, windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side. | the road to the Fire Court looked especially dangerous | Floy had asked about dangers and what they might expect to encounter but Fenella did not think it looked especially dangerous. | negation | present | [
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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | prove | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola, stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines, would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex, so durable, that I would perhaps never reemerge. The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products, striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves, using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species. | the fittest product with the most colorful packaging was the most likely to be pollinated by purchase | I was conscious that underlying it all there must be some Law of Unnatural Selection which could prove that the fittest product with the most colourful packaging was the most likely to be pollinated by purchase. | AB | modal | present | [
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] | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola, stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines, would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex, so durable, that I would perhaps never reemerge. The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products, striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves, using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species.</s>I was conscious that underlying it all there must be some Law of Unnatural Selection which could prove that the fittest product with the most colourful packaging was the most likely to be pollinated by purchase.</s>the fittest product with the most colorful packaging was the most likely to be pollinated by purchase | BNC-923 | 5,255 | A25YG9M911WA3T | 0 | 00
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