Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 2 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 3 | She might have gotten away in that instant — except for the money . |
| 4 | Sgt. Peter Jordan added : ‘ One of the crew baled out — nearly hitting me in the process — but I do n't think his parachute would have opened properly from that height . ’ |
| 5 | Moore , indeed , dismisses as incoherent the idea that the parts of a thing may have characteristics they could not have had apart from that whole . |
| 6 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 7 | We might have rode along in that coach the whole night while I just stood there in front of the office . |
| 8 | Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ? |
| 9 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 10 | So the old ones they 'd have taken back to that yard place would n't they ? |
| 11 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 12 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 13 | Now Rangers face the backlash in a top-five clash at Old Trafford today , with evergreen skipper Wilkins , 36 , saying : ‘ I thought they 'd have bounced back after that defeat . |
| 14 | ‘ How could it 'ave jumped out of that geezer 's pocket into me hat ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ? |