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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | think | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy, if it had not been for Richard's behaviour in the next months. He brought me flowers, took me out to dinner and the theatre, and was generally attentive to me, as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman. | Richard's solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless | If at any point I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless - a prisoner or a caged bird - I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening. | conditional | past | [
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30EV7DWJTV0C4IT568V02E0PPE8Y6T | know | Gloria remarked as they shared their coffee break in the kitchen. Melissa suppressed a sigh. | Gloria's boundless interest in all things morbid and sensational would make dodging the subject impossible | She had hoped to dodge the subject but might have known that Gloria's boundless interest in all things morbid and sensational would make it impossible. | CI | modal | past | [
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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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3M4KL7H8KVSFECI2UJORORPFIS2614 | tell | Just when you think you 've got it straight, along comes the Fool with his pig's bladder and whops you on the nose. By the way, I'm no idiot. | Gillian and Stuart weren't thrilled to see her at the airport | I could tell Gillian and Stuart weren't thrilled to see me at the airport. | AB | modal | present | [
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | find | ``We're about to run out of time. I would like to thank you for coming into the studio today, and I'm sure we 'll receive a lot of letters from our listeners about what's been said.'' | this is just the beginning | You could find that this is just the beginning and that your plans aren't quite as cut and dried as they appear. | AB | modal | future | [
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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 | [
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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 | 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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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | think | It was ridiculously easy to get away and her own skill brought a grin to her face. The great Felipe had not even been around and the servants had ignored the fact that the inglesa was calmly walking towards the great gates. | the inglesa was just exploring the area within the walls | Maybe they thought she was just exploring the area within the walls. | EP | modal | past | [
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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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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 | [
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30EV7DWJTV0C4IT568V02E0PPE8Y6T | tell | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom, and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children. ``It seems,'' he went on in a calmer voice, ``that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction.'' | Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job. | negation | past | [
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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 | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | say | Modify the arachnids, said the researchers. Change their bodies and conditions, and you could get fibres like glass, still monofilament, but with logarithmic progressions of possibilities of strength and flexibility, and the ability to resonate light-particles or sound-waves undistorted, scarcely weakened over thousands of miles. | arachnids had to be totally organic | Who said the arachnids had to be totally organic? | question | past | [
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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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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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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | know | ``Oh, very well,'' he said wearily. | it was useless to argue with McAllister | He might have known that it was useless to argue with McAllister - her tongue was as long as her will was strong. | CI | modal | past | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | think | No, my dear, you are just as tired as I am, and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself. If I leave the door open I shall be able to hear him if his condition worsens. | the two girls had become bosom friends | To hear these ``my dears'' being so liberally dispensed you might have thought that the two girls had become bosom friends. | 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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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | tell | She might have sat all afternoon, nibbling and stuporous, exhausted but not sleepy. But the glazier finally came down from the upper floor, cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way. | the glazier would have liked to stop for a chat | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat that he felt sorry for her left on her own but she lacked either her grandmother's grace or her mother's energy so she did not offer him tea. | AB | modal | present | [
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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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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | think | 'Very well, I'll go. But I pick my own men, and if we ever have to fight, you obey my word.'' | Sidacai was in a position to impose conditions | Jehan did not think that Sidacai was in any position to impose conditions but he sat back in his chair considering. | negation | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | notice | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared. You're too busy to speak some days. | she has gone | You won't even notice I 've gone. | negation | future | [
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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 | [
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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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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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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 | [
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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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3XH7ZM9YX2ZQP0JHQK6IESYUCS1R9V | see | They were all the same, all noise and sparrow shit, and if the man only knew the idiot scene he cut... ``My fire exploded.'' The fight had fled the Major. | the Major's hands trembled | His hands hung simply by his trouser pockets ungloved and Rudakov could see that they trembled. | AB | modal | present | [
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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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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 | [
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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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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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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | know | Only Mr Jemps accepted. Red lit one for himself. | Red smoked | I had not seen him smoke before and did not know he did. | negation | past | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | hear | ``Yes, dreadful isn't it,'' she agreed. ``Still, the farmers need it, Rodney says, and the garden...'' Compared with the near-despair that she had shown during their recent encounter in the church, her manner was almost jaunty. | Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney. | EP | modal | past | [
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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 | [
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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 | [
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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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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | hear | The kind of questions Benny never thought to ask but was always interested in the answers. She had never known that her parents met at a tennis party in a county far away. | Father had been apprenticed to another business in the town of Ballylee | She had never heard that Father had been apprenticed to another business in the town of Ballylee. | negation | past | [
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3ODOP6T3ASP8OAWKUZVQWCF6E6V42H | believe | Alice asked after her daughter, Mungo's mother, and complained about the price of bread. She spoke of the pain in her hands, neighbours who had passed on, and twice asked Mungo what school he was going to now. | coal came from wood | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood. | negation | past | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | think | The window-boxes were in full bloom. But there was a for sale board up, new today, he hadn't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC. | Mrs. Brocklebank had forgotten | Mrs Brocklebank had been quiet lately about the tragic possibilities of the house but he did not think she had forgotten. | negation | present | [
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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 | [
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3ODOP6T3ASP8OAWKUZVQWCF6E6V42H | realize | It was drink that got me into this mess. That and the club raffle. | the manager's job was third prize | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager's job was third prize. | EP | modal | past | [
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3XH7ZM9YX2ZQP0JHQK6IESYUCS1R9V | convince | Maggie rocked her closer still. She could understand the guilt that Ana carried. | Ana was not to blame | She prayed that Felipe would hurry back because he was the only one who could convince Ana that she was not to blame. | AB | modal | present | [
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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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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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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | notice | ``These ` ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've ` eard!'' ``If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money,'' murmured Pugwash, whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice. | the pirates were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem and what they would do with the reward if they won it that they didn't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage. | 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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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | feel | Fenna had become too powerful. Maggie did not want to be a crazy person. | Maggie was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna's home | She wanted now at any price to be able to sit in the rooms of young women who could be her friends and not feel that she was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna's home. | 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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30EV7DWJTV0C4IT568V02E0PPE8Y6T | notice | And I was excited by my new importance. Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin. | Frank Donovan was not the jovial easy-going character she remembered | Occasionally perhaps I should notice that he was not the jovial easy-going character I remembered from my humble place in the chorus. | DE | modal | present | [
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | mean | Yesterday I couldn't have done it. Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page. | he is a little bit reconciled to himself | Does my writing this down now mean that I am a little bit reconciled to myself? | question | 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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3M4KL7H8KVSFECI2UJORORPFIS2614 | think | My dear girl, it's a small fortune! No one in her right mind would turn her back on that! | he 'd believe such crazy behavior | If you think I 'd believe such crazy behaviour you've miscalculated my knowledge of human nature. | conditional | present | [
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3XH7ZM9YX2ZQP0JHQK6IESYUCS1R9V | find | I'm only edgy because there might be something being planned, but I'm probably completely wrong. Parr's probably coming for a business deal with my daddy and feels the need to have a grip of me, the usual thing, that's all. | she didn't like it when it came | If they have got something cooking and if I found I didn't like it when it came I 'd tell them to get stuffed. | conditional | future | [
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | say | Hardly, thought Jaq. Nor could Obispal exactly be viewed as incompetent, despite his last-moment slackening of judgement when he charged into that trap in the arcade. | Obispal's activities were directly responsible for triggering the rebellion | A cynic might say that Obispal's activities were directly responsible for triggering the rebellion and thus for all the deaths including those of millions of bystanders. | EP | modal | future | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | understand | That is to say, I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day, what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted, humorous sort. Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon, and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments, it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all. | there was a natural tendency on her part to hint that there was a good professional motive behind her request | But you will perhaps understand that there was a natural tendency on my part in asking what was after all a generous favour from my employer to hint that there was a good professional motive behind my request. | EP | modal | future | [
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3KQC8JMJGCXRL4GYD6TE9BT2PRTH37 | suspect | She had known Mandy all her life. The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura's age got to it was in the clothes they wore. | Maura had been with a boy | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy all hell would break loose. | conditional | present | [
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3ODOP6T3ASP8OAWKUZVQWCF6E6V42H | mean | But he had called on Lorton on the Sunday of Newley's disappearance. Newley must have put him up to it. | Tolby had some inkling about the theft of the coins | Did that mean that Tolby had some inkling about the theft of the coins and Newley's suspicions about the identity of the thief? | question | past | [
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] | But he had called on Lorton on the Sunday of Newley's disappearance. Newley must have put him up to it.</s>Did that mean that Tolby had some inkling about the theft of the coins and Newley's suspicions about the identity of the thief?</s>Tolby had some inkling about the theft of the coins | BNC-2436 | 3,192 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 0 | 00
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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 | [
"2",
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3XH7ZM9YX2ZQP0JHQK6IESYUCS1R9V | tell | 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. She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning, and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays. | many of the children at the school were ill | She did not tell me that many of the children at the school were ill. | negation | past | [
"-2",
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] | 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. She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning, and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays.</s>She did not tell me that many of the children at the school were ill.</s>many of the children at the school were ill | BNC-1953 | 2,393 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | say | She may fall ill, or have an accident while you were out, or set the house on fire and herself, so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping. Once with you, you would not get rid of her easily, I feel it in my bones. | he was writing until he has now started | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it. | negation | present | [
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | think | Didn't have time. I never went no further than you are now, all I come for was my little secateurs, and they were on the shelf here inside the door. | there'll be anything missing | I reckoned I'd come back midday and have a look over everything but I don't think there'll be anything missing. | negation | 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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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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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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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | say | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes. My mother was again plunged into a version of that dilemma common to all divorced wives. | Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen - in which case she would stand self-confessed as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place. | AB | modal | present | [
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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 | [
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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 | [
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | know | They pretended that what was happening was not happening, and if it were to happen, it would certainly never happen to the likes of them. ``It is wise to bear in mind how vastly superior is the individual over all the political institutions and social mechanisms which oppress him!'' | liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism | They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism. | negation | present | [
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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 | [
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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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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 | [
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | hear | O listened. As he listened he could smell the man. | the song was almost turning into a sob | And he could hear that the song was almost turning into a sob. | AB | modal | present | [
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | suppose | He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly, she had written about her family as if they were perfect. It had puzzled him and made him very slightly jealous. | Emmie's writing was publishable | He had never supposed that it was publishable or that Emmie cherished ambitions of that kind. | negation | past | [
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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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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 | [
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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 | [
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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 | [
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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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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | pretend | His flat was on the top floor. Underneath was a dentist and on the ground floor an estate agent. | Miriam was visiting the dentist | They had arranged between themselves that if by chance Miriam was seen entering the house by day she could always pretend she was visiting the dentist. | AB | modal | future | [
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341H3G5YF0JHVXHV05H27KZ0I3DZ03 | think | And if he knew why did he tell her and annoy her still further? If he did have designs on her, and a plan to marry Mr Eddie Hogan's daughter and thereby marry into the business, then why was he saying all the things that would irritate and upset her? | Mr Eddie Hogan's daughter's own wishes would hardly be considered in the matter | Perhaps he thought that her own wishes would hardly be considered in the matter. | EP | modal | present | [
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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 | [
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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | insist | We must be well past Malmesbury by this time, Isabel thought. But the fortress there was an outpost, virtually surrounded by enemy castles. | fitzAlan could travel | It would be miles yet probably another day of travelling before they reached safer country and even if fitzAlan stubbornly insisted that he could travel the horse wouldn't go forever. | AB | conditional | future | [
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | notice | ``Here's three pence for you for a lolly if you 'll go.'' ``All right, then,'' agreed Peggy, her pout disappearing at once. | a little troubled crease appeared on Peggy's mummy's forehead | She did not notice that a little troubled crease appeared on her mummy's forehead. | negation | present | [
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341H3G5YF0JHVXHV05H27KZ0I3DZ03 | think | If only she had been a bit more accommodating, a bit more enthusiastic. As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily. | Paula had any hand in it | But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast. | 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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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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3LOJFQ4BOXKG5MJ3CG2NZCV68KEKD2 | notice | He left his own number, calling himself Alain - the name of her Malaysian-French ``business manager''. The next day Gina rang. | it was Gina's own number | She had obviously not noticed that it was her own number. | negation | past | [
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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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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | insist | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish, and such calculated deceit was a downright insult! | there was no one else | Why had he insisted there was no one else when it was perfectly obvious that there was? | question | past | [
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | guess | The lunch trade had mostly disappeared so he wasn't hard to spot. He was at a window table but he was ignoring the river, being deep in conversation with a middle-aged man wearing a suit and a short sheepskin car coat with matching brown suede shoes. | the guy's tailor was based in Dublin | Even from this distance you could guess the guy's tailor was based in Dublin. | AB | modal | present | [
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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 | [
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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 | 3,573 | A3LJ2FHESYV9QQ | -2 | 6-2
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | notice | ``These ` ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've ` eard!'' ``If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money,'' murmured Pugwash, whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice. | the pirates were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem and what they would do with the reward if they won it that they didn't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage. | negation | present | [
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] | ``These ` ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've ` eard!'' ``If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money,'' murmured Pugwash, whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice.</s>And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem and what they would do with the reward if they won it that they didn't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage.</s>the pirates were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage | BNC-1683 | 1,987 | A3LJ2FHESYV9QQ | 3 | 33
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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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3O2Y2UIUCQZD36XZ3MXDNCYRKXUKFD | say | Some would say her hair is her finest feature, though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable, hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood - drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir's, or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud. As it is, there is not much she can do with her curls except, every now and again, crop them brutally short just to demonstrate how inadequately they represent her character. | the grey-green eyes are a little close-set | Her face is comely enough to take short hair though perfectionists might say that the grey-green eyes are a little close-set and the nose and chin are a centimetre longer than Robyn herself would have wished. | EP | modal | present | [
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | know | They pretended that what was happening was not happening, and if it were to happen, it would certainly never happen to the likes of them. ``It is wise to bear in mind how vastly superior is the individual over all the political institutions and social mechanisms which oppress him!'' | liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism | They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism. | negation | present | [
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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 | [
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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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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | say | ``Can you?'' ``The wedding of course,'' said my mother ill-advisedly. | the wedding was cancelled | Lili frowned and I wondered what would happen if I should say that the wedding was cancelled. | conditional | future | [
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