Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 2 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 3 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 4 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 5 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 6 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 7 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |
| 8 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 9 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 10 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 11 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 12 | By the end of the interview she will have plaited it into a handy living-room rug , but for now Susanna wants to talk about her NME photo session . |
| 13 | If he had n't adored her he would have treated her as a credulous imbecile . |
| 14 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 17 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 18 | In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces . |
| 19 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 20 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 21 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 22 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 23 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 24 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 25 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 26 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 28 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 29 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 30 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |