Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 3 | The believe planners should have turned down the application . |
| 4 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 5 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 6 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 7 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 8 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 9 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 10 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 11 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 12 | Whatever yous want , it 's up to yous , if yous want your shoes today I 'll get them but I was thinking if we 'd 've went down the town today |
| 13 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 14 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 15 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 16 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 17 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 18 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 19 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 20 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 21 | The DTI could have closed down the investment business there and then . |
| 22 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 23 | Given half a chance she 'd have taken on the job of finding a soul-mate for Shannon with all the crusading zeal of a missionary , since she was blissfully convinced that true happiness could be found only in a strong relationship such as the one she had . |
| 24 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 25 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 26 | Even though the writer may have planned out the essay and a line of argument , this is not a very successful beginning . |
| 27 | The Gloucester coach Keith Richardson says that the week may have turned around the team 's season … the win over a strong bridgend side was very rewarding and it reflects the old Gloucester dog attitude … when they think there 's competition a match to be won they respond and come through … there 's a big league game against Northampton coming up on saturday and Gloucester need all the inspiration they can get to win |
| 28 | I may have cried down the telephone , but Mme Dragon would n't unbend . |
| 29 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 30 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |