Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 2 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 3 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 4 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |
| 5 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 6 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 7 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 8 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 9 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 10 | He could n't have rushed passed me into the bedroom , seized the bottle as a convenient weapon — he could n't have known it was there , anyway — and then dashed back out to hit me before dragging me … do you see what I 'm saying ? ’ |
| 11 | She might have tried to reach me at the office during the afternoon . |
| 12 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 13 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 14 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 15 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 16 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 17 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |