Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 2 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 3 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 4 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 5 | Andrew says he 's fitter than last year but doesn.t know if he can beat his wife Sarah who says she thinks her husband might get bogged down in the mud |
| 6 | It 's inevitable that you 'll get caught out in the rain at some time . |
| 7 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 8 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 9 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 10 | The atmosphere is bad and British sailors could get caught up in the bad feeling if they went ashore , ’ said the Ark Royal 's captain , John Brigstocke . |
| 11 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 12 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 13 | Mendoros 's enthusiasm for aviation dates , he says , from his childhood in the Sudan , when he used to get taken up in the helicopters servicing Italian-operated drilling rigs . |
| 14 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 15 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 16 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 17 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 18 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 20 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 21 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |
| 22 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 23 | — established views on the issue raised by the question , which you will have learned about in the class or by your own reading ; |
| 24 | Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May . |