Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Your grandfather might have heard it called the felty , or the pigeon felty or even the blue felty — and I think some call it fell fo ! " |
| 2 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 3 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 4 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 5 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 7 | Even if he had been aware of the presence , the darkness would have prevented him seeing the man who watched his flat . |
| 8 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 9 | " And you should have seen 'em kill the rats at haymaking time , young Bruce . |
| 10 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 11 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have thought you needed the money . ’ |
| 13 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 14 | Sometimes his patients lacked the kind of knowledge that would have enabled them to interpret the experience as ‘ sexual ’ at all . |
| 15 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 16 | I will assess this more in the conclusions , by which time the evolving events will have enabled us to understand the pressures on the participants better . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 19 | Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant . |
| 20 | I have a strong presentiment that , had the opportunity arisen , Lord Mansfield would have seized it to establish the law in this form . |
| 21 | ‘ had with you ’ Means the accused must have known he had the weapon with him ( R v Cugullere [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 343 ) . |
| 22 | This may have led him to exaggerate the extent to which Labour Party organisation had been maintained during the war , while Conservative Party organisation had languished : |
| 23 | If only bluff King Hal had been around yesterday , I think the tribunal might have co-opted him to pronounce the sentence they 'd love to carry out on Lamb : ‘ Off with his head ! ’ . |
| 24 | Had Lowell known the story — what happened to the woman — he would n't have wanted you to have the photograph taken in similar style to the other one . |
| 25 | This , he felt , would have allowed him to tolerate the disturbances better . |
| 26 | However , he was persuaded to stay in England when he considered that his poor state of health probably would not have allowed him to survive the hardship of a long sea voyage in those days . |
| 27 | Penry 's ethics would never have allowed him to reveal the reason for Melanie 's visit to his home . |
| 28 | ‘ I had already tried in my youth to enlist in the Forces as an officer cadet , which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage . |
| 29 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 30 | If the law of any country in which this policy covers you , requires General Accident to settle a claim which we would not otherwise have paid we reserve the right to recover this amount from you or from the person who incurred liability . |