Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 2 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 3 | If … if there 's time , I 'd like to show you the new salon in Albemarle Street . ’ |
| 4 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 5 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 6 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 7 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 8 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 9 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 10 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 11 | I would hate to do it the other way . |