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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | find | ``Funny that the met people should get it so wrong.'' Outside the flight deck, a wisp of white flicked past the black window. | Delaney was suspicious about the meteorological report | Why did Delaney suddenly find he was suspicious about the meteorological report? | question | present | [
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3VCK0Q0PO5JNE83CXH68CXSR8P5N0A | feel | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen's proposition. He thought he saw in Osman, beneath the intransigence and fanaticism, a certain uneasiness as to his own role in the affair. | there was some justification for the charge | ``Lightness'' was not an easy charge for a religious sheikh to bear especially if he felt there was some justification for the charge. | conditional | present | [
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36JW4WBR06PM1GWRX1UGAKIZSFUFH6 | know | For Syl I felt no sympathy, since if he was fool enough to want me he deserved none. In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over. | she was empty of everything except perhaps madness | We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and as I have said I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness. | negation | past | [
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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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3ZFRE2BDQ9JPSNN63H69GYMBTSVXZU | mean | Shannon knew she was being excluded from the conversation, though there was absolutely no evidence of that. She gave herself a mental shake. | Marianne was trying to shut Shannon out | Marianne was simply like many other egocentric actresses she 'd met - interested more in herself than in anything else - but that didn't necessarily mean she was trying to shut Shannon out. | negation | present | [
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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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32W3UF2EZOQLMSOMRSKW8POSOD84CK | think | What you should do - if you were sophisticated - was just give the glass a swirl and sniff, which would tell you whether or not the wine was off. So this was what Ollie took to doing, reducing his performance to a series of loud inhalings followed by a curt nod. | one of the girls didn't know what Ollie was doing | Sometimes if he thought one of the girls didn't know what he was doing he 'd go into a long explanation of why he hadn't actually tasted the stuff. | conditional | past | [
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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 | [
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382GHPVPHSWX9SS3YZ9VFMKYKKV43S | mean | Surely, the fact that he was out here, calmly taking a holiday, might be an encouraging sign? The machinations of corporate sharks were a slightly hazy area in her experience. | Guy Sterne didn't consider the crisis at Chester's to be that big a crisis | Did this mean Guy Sterne didn't consider the crisis at Chester's to be that big a crisis after all? | question | present | [
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3GONHBMNHV3EYBO2PA405H6DL6EMZ1 | believe | If there are spirits at work at the time, they come only from yourself, not from the fume of the incense. Why should spirits aid living beings? | people can have power over spirits | What arrogance is it that drives people to believe they can have power over them? | question | present | [
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324N5FAHSXG2Z3JP312H5Y1DCOAVK2 | know | B: Yeah, but I'm not sure how successful that is. A: Well, I think it would be more successful if it was applied in a more expedient manner, if there weren't so many appeals. B: Quicker maybe, yeah. A: Yeah, | the person committing the crime was going to be punished severely | if the person who's going to commit the crime knew that they were going to be punished severely, possibly capital punishment, | conditional | past | [
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366FYU4PTGULXSX38BD75UDR8WFKEV | feel | Jed wondered. He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood. | Jed should ask | Nobody had mentioned him either and Jed didn't feel he should ask. | negation | past | [
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382GHPVPHSWX9SS3YZ9VFMKYKKV43S | think | He had been almost tempted to buy some from her at a discount until he remembered her prices. Highgate Cemetery was more or less on his way to the theatre, and although it was almost all old graves without flowers, he had seen some being left regularly by some nutty Communist at the grave of Karl Marx. | it was kids who had stolen the flowers | The woman would probably think it was kids who had stolen them. | EP | modal | future | [
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36JW4WBR06PM1GWRX1UGAKIZSFUFH6 | think | He said. ``Not if I want to continue fitting into all my clothes.'' Good grief, what century was this man living in? | the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable | Did he think that the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable? | question | present | [
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3D1TUISJWI5BGT41Y870WWKH2FFUI4 | think | Mrs Menzies had died five years before, killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal. Menzies himself had a yellow face with a stained-looking flush on each cheekbone, and when he felt a bout of fever coming on, he drank to drown the symptoms. | Menzies was trying not to sound drunk | Now he looked over at Cameron taking stock of the quizzical lift of his right eyebrow when he looked out below his black fringe the down-turn of his mouth under his long curved nose and began to recapitulate his argument with care uncomfortably aware that Angus might think he was trying not to sound drunk. | EP | modal | present | [
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3W0KKJIARRE4ORNCV8R7DKH5XRGK8R | believe | Just knowing they are there in the bag is as comforting as Victor finds his cheroots. I can already feel the shape of one resting in my palm. | his first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard | I could believe my first finger has threaded through the trigger-guard. | AB | modal | present | [
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32204AGAABHSFGSM8L0YS5IBTUHHGU | mean | Ari felt very old as she walked back to the group. It seemed that, all around her, things were changing - old, beloved routines that had felt safe and comfortable were decaying into new patterns. | Ari had to leave Star Eye | If by working with Roirbak it meant she had to leave Star Eye it might be for the best. | conditional | future | [
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | notice | ``His name is Matthew Blake,'' Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge. | Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt | Thankfully she hadn't even noticed that Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt and was now wearing red shorts with her white silk blouse. | negation | past | [
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32L724R85LPYOOW5HM86MQXISETPI3 | decide | Country churches were never locked. You could wander in at any time. | Cromwell would get in anyway | Perhaps Cromwell when he passed also found the door of Coldingham Priory locked and decided that he would get in anyway even if it meant removing a whole wall in order to do so. | EP | modal | 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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3Q2T3FD0ONDDDIH9439R1G1YAB1M3U | think | A: Yeah. I hope. That's true. B: You know, I, that's the kind of people, | the guy who's going to rob Seven Eleven is going to rob a Seven Eleven whether he as a gun knife or baseball bat | like I say, I don't think the guy who's going to rob a Seven Eleven, is going to rob a Seven Eleven whether he has a gun or a knife, baseball bat, or, you know, whatever, | negation | present | [
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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 | [
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3ULIZ0H1VAAJV8IOP0EMWLBFMXG51C | tell | The Colonel could tell that the noise was distracting Amanda from her pamphlet, though she gave no outward sign. It was simply that he could judge such things after living so closely with her for however many years. | Amanda hadn't really got her nose in the Reverend Abraham | He could tell she hadn't really got her nose in the Reverend Abraham. | AB | modal | present | [
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | think | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him, so I told him his English was very good. It was just average really. | she was just a harmless English eccentric | I wonder whether he thought it was just the way the English talked or whether he thought I was peculiar... Yes I suppose you're right he probably thought I was just a harmless English eccentric! | EP | modal | past | [
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3WGCNLZJKFDEZLXH46W5UXZ7ZCDD1N | think | It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew. Those employing the man, that was - the French Haute Police, as they called themselves. | anyone discovered that much | Fedorov had not thought anyone could have discovered that much not only about his French activities but those during his youth in Russia. | negation | past | [
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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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3GONHBMNHV3EYBO2PA405H6DL6EMZ1 | think | It was mainly to make a good impression on the new tribe. Little Krishna ran off into the jungle. | she was going to shoot little Krishna as well | Perhaps the little idiot thought I was going to shoot him as well. | EP | 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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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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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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] | ``Yes?'' ``Nathan?''</s>He could tell it was long-distance the line was so gravelly and hollow but he didn't recognise the voice.</s>the call was long-distance | BNC-1160 | 652 | A2W8ZV9DQWVHJK | 2 | 22
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | say | Colin hated the way he inspected the rag before folding the contents into the centre and forcing it into his trouser pocket. Smith obliged on all counts before announcing firmly, ``It was Arson.'' | it was Arson | If Smith said it was Arson then that's what it was. | conditional | past | [
"3",
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] | Colin hated the way he inspected the rag before folding the contents into the centre and forcing it into his trouser pocket. Smith obliged on all counts before announcing firmly, ``It was Arson.''</s>If Smith said it was Arson then that's what it was.</s>it was Arson | BNC-299 | 3,537 | A2W8ZV9DQWVHJK | 3 | 33
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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 | [
"3",
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] | ``It's your own silly fault,'' Claire said. ``You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you.''</s>I might have guessed I 'd get no sympathy from Claire.</s>he 'd get no sympathy from Claire | BNC-720 | 4,593 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | mean | Until I can persuade her to unbind me - or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override - I am confined inside the plane of reflected light. But - hoo-ha! | he has to stay in one particular mirror | But - hoo-ha! - this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror. | negation | present | [
"-3",
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | guess | For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest. Father Jankowski looked at me so kindly I could not tell him. | she was not normal | I thought he might have guessed I was not normal. | EP | modal | 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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] | ``That's no problem,'' he grinned, unabashed. ``We have a perfectly efficient paging system, isn't that right, Niall?''</s>Lindsey saw the dark brow come down and from his thunderous expression could tell Niall was furious.</s>Niall was furious | BNC-1144 | 571 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | see | But, of course, that just wasn't possible. Her disappointment over Jonathan, which had driven her to France in the first place, had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind. | marriage to Jonathan would have been a ghastly mistake | Now in retrospect she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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] | But, of course, that just wasn't possible. Her disappointment over Jonathan, which had driven her to France in the first place, had been relegated somewhere to the back of her mind.</s>Now in retrospect she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart.</s>marriage to Jonathan would have been a ghastly mistake | BNC-1071 | 245 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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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 | [
"3",
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] | 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.</s>He leaned on her not wholly unconscious but she could tell he didn't know what was happening to him.</s>Adam didn't know what was happening to him | BNC-1148 | 603 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | learn | He would be furious, of course, and rightly so. But, even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception, she couldn't own up to a thing - Cara was depending on her! | Fabia had deceived Ven | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but to add insult to injury allowed him believing her to be someone else to house her and feed her into the bargain. | conditional | future | [
"0",
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] | He would be furious, of course, and rightly so. But, even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception, she couldn't own up to a thing - Cara was depending on her!</s>Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but to add insult to injury allowed him believing her to be someone else to house her and feed her into the bargain.</s>Fabia had deceived Ven | BNC-232 | 3,016 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | think | It is obvious, is it not, that if one gets emotionally involved in a problem, one can not perform as well as when one is viewing it impersonally, yes?'' ``Yes,'' Fabia agreed, but what was more than obvious to her, with Ven stressing, ``specifically'' stressing, that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only, was that he still didn't trust her not to ask personal questions about him. | Fabia would do that pest of an interview through Lubor | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor she was certain then that she didn't even like Ven Gajdusek - much less was she attracted to him! | AB | modal | present | [
"-2",
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] | It is obvious, is it not, that if one gets emotionally involved in a problem, one can not perform as well as when one is viewing it impersonally, yes?'' ``Yes,'' Fabia agreed, but what was more than obvious to her, with Ven stressing, ``specifically'' stressing, that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only, was that he still didn't trust her not to ask personal questions about him.</s>Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor she was certain then that she didn't even like Ven Gajdusek - much less was she attracted to him!</s>Fabia would do that pest of an interview through Lubor | BNC-1208 | 775 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
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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 | [
"0",
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] | 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.</s>He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up.</s>being a world-champion tiddly-winks player was something worth taking up | BNC-53 | 4,028 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 0 | 00
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | notice | The assassin's tone and bearing were completely confident. | Zukov was edging further to the side | If he noticed that Zukov was now edging further to the side widening the arc of fire he did not appear to be troubled. | conditional | present | [
"2",
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] | The assassin's tone and bearing were completely confident.</s>If he noticed that Zukov was now edging further to the side widening the arc of fire he did not appear to be troubled.</s>Zukov was edging further to the side | BNC-263 | 3,453 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | say | And Sarah knew, while Peter didn't. It amazed her that she should find it difficult to tell him. | it would be almost beyond Sarah's powers to tell Peter of Nona's death | If anyone had said to her yesterday that it would be almost beyond her powers to tell Peter of Nona's death she would have laughed. | conditional | past | [
"1",
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"1",
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] | And Sarah knew, while Peter didn't. It amazed her that she should find it difficult to tell him.</s>If anyone had said to her yesterday that it would be almost beyond her powers to tell Peter of Nona's death she would have laughed.</s>it would be almost beyond Sarah's powers to tell Peter of Nona's death | BNC-304 | 3,555 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
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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 | 1,020 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
|
3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | think | Almost inaudibly, Fand said, ``Look at me, mortal, and you will see the mark of her spell in my face.'' Reluctantly, Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes. | Ruth would understand what Fand meant | She hadn't thought she would understand what Fand meant. | negation | past | [
"-1",
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] | Almost inaudibly, Fand said, ``Look at me, mortal, and you will see the mark of her spell in my face.'' Reluctantly, Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes.</s>She hadn't thought she would understand what Fand meant.</s>Ruth would understand what Fand meant | BNC-2034 | 2,604 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -1 | 5-1
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | believe | He was seated at the back of the court, initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets, but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her. Each time she bent to receive serve he found himself staring mesmerized at her derriere. | the camp inmates were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS | Binding me with his confidences he said that the wonderfully athletic Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS. | AB | modal | present | [
"-1",
"2",
"3",
"1",
"2",
"-1",
"1",
"1"
] | He was seated at the back of the court, initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets, but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her. Each time she bent to receive serve he found himself staring mesmerized at her derriere.</s>Binding me with his confidences he said that the wonderfully athletic Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS.</s>the camp inmates were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS | BNC-607 | 4,276 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
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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 | [
"1",
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] | We must be well past Malmesbury by this time, Isabel thought. But the fortress there was an outpost, virtually surrounded by enemy castles.</s>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.</s>fitzAlan could travel | BNC-120 | 744 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -2 | 6-2
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33Q5P9PUSPR1PPCBCLAM2L11RS6CZ5 | know | So the hound followed the scent and hunted this man. But there is one thing I don't understand. | the hound was following Selden | How did Selden know that the hound was following him? | question | past | [
"0",
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] | So the hound followed the scent and hunted this man. But there is one thing I don't understand.</s>How did Selden know that the hound was following him?</s>the hound was following Selden | BNC-2307 | 2,996 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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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 | [
"3",
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"3",
"3",
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] | ``Here's three pence for you for a lolly if you 'll go.'' ``All right, then,'' agreed Peggy, her pout disappearing at once.</s>She did not notice that a little troubled crease appeared on her mummy's forehead.</s>a little troubled crease appeared on Peggy's mummy's forehead | BNC-1656 | 1,844 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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3ODOP6T3ASP8OAWKUZVQWCF6E6V42H | believe | Little did they know this was the fellow for whom The Flippity Flop Young Man was written, and I wasn't about to tell them. Would it have made any difference if I had? | these seamstresses and pipefitters knew who the fellow was | Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was? | question | present | [
"-3",
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] | Little did they know this was the fellow for whom The Flippity Flop Young Man was written, and I wasn't about to tell them. Would it have made any difference if I had?</s>Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was?</s>these seamstresses and pipefitters knew who the fellow was | BNC-2192 | 2,873 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -3 | 4-3
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | suspect | Trazior did overlook such a desert, as southerly sentinel of the Palatine cluster. However, Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain, interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables. | some giant world-spider had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider nourished on venom had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain. | EP | modal | present | [
"-3",
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"1",
"1",
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"-2",
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] | Trazior did overlook such a desert, as southerly sentinel of the Palatine cluster. However, Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain, interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables.</s>Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider nourished on venom had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain.</s>some giant world-spider had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes | BNC-1134 | 519 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -3 | 4-3
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31J7RYECZLVXXXL9HNUTDA7C8MC1LQ | tell | The Susweca. It means ``dragonfly'' in Sioux, you know. | Susweca is where she and Paul met | Did I ever tell you that's where Paul and I met? | question | past | [
"3",
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"3",
"3",
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] | The Susweca. It means ``dragonfly'' in Sioux, you know.</s>Did I ever tell you that's where Paul and I met?</s>Susweca is where she and Paul met | BNC-2630 | 3,458 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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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 | [
"-3",
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] | His flat was on the top floor. Underneath was a dentist and on the ground floor an estate agent.</s>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.</s>Miriam was visiting the dentist | BNC-917 | 5,244 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -3 | 4-3
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | think | ``She caught a fever in the village. Benedict had it, too.'' | Isabel wanted to live | But I don't think Isabel wanted to live. | negation | present | [
"-2",
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] | ``She caught a fever in the village. Benedict had it, too.''</s>But I don't think Isabel wanted to live.</s>Isabel wanted to live | BNC-2124 | 2,739 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -2 | 6-2
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | say | Perhaps I should apologize for my tears. As a rationalist, I had but to snap my rational fingers, it might be argued, and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke. | he had spent too many years in his capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions | To which I might say that rationalist or not I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions. | CI | modal | present | [
"3",
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] | Perhaps I should apologize for my tears. As a rationalist, I had but to snap my rational fingers, it might be argued, and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke.</s>To which I might say that rationalist or not I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions.</s>he had spent too many years in his capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions | BNC-1020 | 100 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | mean | That was then, and then's gone. It's now now. | she has done a sudden transformation | I don't mean I 've done a sudden transformation. | negation | present | [
"-3",
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] | That was then, and then's gone. It's now now.</s>I don't mean I 've done a sudden transformation.</s>she has done a sudden transformation | BNC-1645 | 1,822 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -2 | 6-2
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | think | How Robert (at Marlborough) patronizes him now. He never talked to me about them. | he belongs to the same world | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world. | EP | modal | present | [
"-3",
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] | How Robert (at Marlborough) patronizes him now. He never talked to me about them.</s>Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world.</s>he belongs to the same world | BNC-1240 | 871 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -1 | 5-1
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3KTCJ4SCVG6H3F3UHZV8DNM18R21MS | find | ``Funny that the met people should get it so wrong.'' Outside the flight deck, a wisp of white flicked past the black window. | Delaney was suspicious about the meteorological report | Why did Delaney suddenly find he was suspicious about the meteorological report? | question | present | [
"3",
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] | ``Funny that the met people should get it so wrong.'' Outside the flight deck, a wisp of white flicked past the black window.</s>Why did Delaney suddenly find he was suspicious about the meteorological report?</s>Delaney was suspicious about the meteorological report | BNC-2239 | 2,914 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKNB7YG | mean | He was so very young, so hurt and confused by all that had happened in his life, it seemed only natural that he should want to lash out. And if it was her he was lashing out at, so be it. | Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that in the end Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away. | conditional | present | [
"0",
"1",
"1",
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] | He was so very young, so hurt and confused by all that had happened in his life, it seemed only natural that he should want to lash out. And if it was her he was lashing out at, so be it.</s>She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that in the end Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away.</s>Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away | BNC-237 | 3,091 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
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3D0LPO3EAB42TOZ964HUJEMGADUOYY | notice | ``His name is Matthew Blake,'' Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge. | Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt | Thankfully she hadn't even noticed that Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt and was now wearing red shorts with her white silk blouse. | negation | past | [
"3",
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] | ``His name is Matthew Blake,'' Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge.</s>Thankfully she hadn't even noticed that Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt and was now wearing red shorts with her white silk blouse.</s>Charity had changed from the blue wrap-around skirt | BNC-1680 | 1,965 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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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 | [
"0",
"3",
"2",
"3",
"2",
"1",
"3",
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] | How do you know? she was going to ask, but his smile was answer enough.</s>If DeVore said there was going to be a vacancy there would be a vacancy.</s>there was going to be a vacancy | BNC-297 | 3,528 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 1 | 11
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3TKXBROM5TF22DT7M93MPUB6L0MIJ3 | tell | ``Yes?'' ``Nathan?'' | the call was long-distance | He could tell it was long-distance the line was so gravelly and hollow but he didn't recognise the voice. | AB | modal | present | [
"3",
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"2",
"3",
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] | ``Yes?'' ``Nathan?''</s>He could tell it was long-distance the line was so gravelly and hollow but he didn't recognise the voice.</s>the call was long-distance | BNC-1160 | 650 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
|
3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | think | ``And you such an antidote to the opposite sex. You could give all your money away and then you wouldn't be pursued at all, would you?'' | she has a technique | And as for my technique - well my friend loath as I am to admit it I don't think I have one. | negation | present | [
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3JMNNNO3B19KXCF44519R4YXY16W2B | forget | ``I 've already got money that I 've saved from Grye's winnings.'' Seb did not amplify his statement. | Christian disapproved of gambling | He had not forgotten that Christian disapproved of gambling. | negation | past | [
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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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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | say | Which brings us to Selkirk's verses. We know the falcon is James, the lamb is Angus, the Lion also is the King of Scotland. | King James somehow survived Flodden | Is Selkirk saying that somehow King James survived Flodden? | question | present | [
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3NBFJK3IOHN27XE9CYVOCEFC5ICOGA | know | I'm putting out no more clean linen until tomorrow. Fighting, indeed. | Dr. Lorrimer would be mixed up in fighting | I might have known that Dr. Lorrimer would be mixed up in it. | CI | modal | past | [
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3AC6MFV69KNS6XNRYDONDCYH4LVHZ5 | tell | David had obviously always known and Julia had learned that, whatever feelings were churning around inside his mother's mind, it was vital for her that they remained private. David was holding the strings in a pattern Julia had never seen before. | David and his mother were approaching a crisis point | His face seemed to show nothing except benevolent interest but Julia could tell from the way that he was carrying his head and a certain tension in his body that they were approaching a crisis point. | AB | modal | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | say | I should think that just about everyone was having a go at everyone else by the time it ended. | it was a war that needed fighting | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting. | CI | modal | present | [
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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 | [
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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 | [
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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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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | suspect | ``One of the old school,'' Ramsbum kept intoning. ``God knows what'll happen to us now.'' | Ramsburn was seriously feeling grief | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief. | CI | modal | present | [
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | know | Tonight... The cool air caressed her bare arms, and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house. What did women do, who were waiting for their lovers? | any moment there would be a knock on the door | How could she sit calmly and read a magazine when all the time she knew that any moment there would be a knock on the door and Luke would be standing there waiting? | question | present | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | notice | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy. This book is intended not only for present-day children but also for all who have ever enjoyed the Captain's adventures. | Sinkport closely resembles a well-known coastal town in East Sussex | The story could have happened anywhere but some readers may notice that Sinkport closely resembles a well-known coastal town in East Sussex. | 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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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | say | The kitchen radiator doesn't work and the Calorgas fire hadn't warmed the place up yet. I began to wonder about how long hypothermia takes to kill someone, I mean what if I left Mum there overnight - would that be long enough? | Mum must have gone wandering | I could say that she must have gone wandering. | AB | modal | future | [
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] | The kitchen radiator doesn't work and the Calorgas fire hadn't warmed the place up yet. I began to wonder about how long hypothermia takes to kill someone, I mean what if I left Mum there overnight - would that be long enough?</s>I could say that she must have gone wandering.</s>Mum must have gone wandering | BNC-1032 | 128 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | -3 | 4-3
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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 | [
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3WGZLY9VCHRWALH23R5K97MFDJBD81 | think | She did cry a little, almost soundlessly, and was furious with herself for doing so, her tears mingling with the spray of the shower. It wasn't his words that had hurt, but the intention behind them. | Luke seriously believed Maria craved some material gain to show for their relationship | Maria didn't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship. | negation | 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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3ODOP6T3ASP8OAWKUZVQWCF6E6V42H | think | But he ended up eating it himself. I was reluctant to kiss my mother, afraid that somehow her weakness and unhappiness would infect me. | her life and spirit could stimulate her mother | Naturally I didn't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her. | negation | present | [
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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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] | 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?</s>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?</s>she was picking up something valuable | BNC-407 | 3,768 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 0 | 00
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3M4KL7H8KVSFECI2UJORORPFIS2614 | say | Look, my dear, I'm not in my dotage yet, and I know I'm a grumbler and a complainer. | the only form of comfort he has are his complaints | You could say the only form of comfort I 've got are my complaints. | CI | modal | present | [
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39I4RL8QGJMC30Z2DKYXJGL83RPH4S | forget | They were baroque symbols reinforcing the lush imagination of the theatre. But the drama on its own wasn't enough, or great performances, or symbols. | it was the audience's patronage and the audience's applause which truly kept the theatre alive | They the audience were what mattered for it should never be forgotten that it was their patronage and their applause which truly kept the theatre alive. | negation | present | [
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] | They were baroque symbols reinforcing the lush imagination of the theatre. But the drama on its own wasn't enough, or great performances, or symbols.</s>They the audience were what mattered for it should never be forgotten that it was their patronage and their applause which truly kept the theatre alive.</s>it was the audience's patronage and the audience's applause which truly kept the theatre alive | BNC-1412 | 1,272 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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3VI0PC2ZAYPDTJ9Z18VS00F7870OXS | assume | Bohemian pyrotechnics are not what marriage to Stu promises. Gillian has landed herself nothing other than the youngest older man she could find. | he wasn't noticing | But would it have been fair to point all this out as they nuzzled one another on some Anglian plage and assumed I wasn't noticing? | question | past | [
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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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33N1S8XHHMQH2M2DWOL2LPIANVJZ16 | feel | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance. They always made Sophia think how much more Mark would be appreciated in a different sort of parish, though she never said anything about it now. | Mark's work lay here | If he felt that his work lay here it was not for her to question his decision but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind. | conditional | present | [
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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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] | Polly had to think quickly.</s>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.</s>Polly was not an experienced ocean sailor | BNC-1 | 6 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3UDTAB6HH642P6ZIW7N3UWX730K09K | hope | Where Roman Wyatt was concerned she was like a snail without a shell. She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly. | when Roman had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way. | AB | modal | present | [
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] | Where Roman Wyatt was concerned she was like a snail without a shell. She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly.</s>She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way.</s>when Roman had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts | BNC-763 | 4,749 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 0 | 00
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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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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | know | And what she had said, and went on saying quietly, calmly, efficiently, was that she loved Maggie. She paid attention. | Maggie's grandmother was famous | At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel. | negation | present | [
"2",
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] | And what she had said, and went on saying quietly, calmly, efficiently, was that she loved Maggie. She paid attention.</s>At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel.</s>Maggie's grandmother was famous | BNC-1507 | 1,479 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3CVBMEMMXBL9MNHLFIW4MS5IUS77HS | say | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host's prospects and disappointments, he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World, the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits, the difficulties of keeping reliable servants, but of his own world he must remain silent. The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef... No bloody way. | the Deputy Under Secretary was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London | He was a man who could be honest with himself and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London. | AB | modal | present | [
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] | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host's prospects and disappointments, he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World, the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits, the difficulties of keeping reliable servants, but of his own world he must remain silent. The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef... No bloody way.</s>He was a man who could be honest with himself and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London.</s>the Deputy Under Secretary was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London | BNC-963 | 5,333 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 3 | 33
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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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] | 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.</s>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.</s>a kiss could feel like this | BNC-1463 | 1,350 | A150GMV1YQWWB3 | 2 | 22
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3M4KL7H8KVSFECI2UJORORPFIS2614 | think | But this was different. Mother Clare's idea of covering obligations centred around the kitchen. | Eve might like to serve the breakfast in the refectory and clear away | She thought perhaps that Eve might like to serve the breakfast in the refectory and clear away and that she should also leave classes ten minutes before lunch and be back in the refectory to serve soup to the other students when they came in. | EP | modal | future | [
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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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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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3XH7ZM9YX2ZQP0JHQK6IESYUCS1R9V | tell | Except that his face, with those tobacco-stained looking eyes and drooping moustache, was always the same and you never knew what he was thinking. When he looked at you it was like he knew something he wasn't telling, or was laughing at you, no matter what it was he said. | Henry Mendez was Mexican | That's when you could tell Henry Mendez was Mexican. | AB | modal | present | [
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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 | forget | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys, and the butt of all the jokes. What arrogance, what cheek, what chutzpah! | once upon a time the Christian world made no distinction between Jews and demons | Has our charming storyteller forgotten that once upon a time the Christian world made no distinction between Jews and demons - knowing both had horns? | 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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