Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 32 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 33 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 34 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 35 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 36 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 37 | And in a way this answer , like the first , was astonishingly appropriate , brandishing a secret truth and a paradox before a man who would have appreciated it to the full , but could not be let into the secret . |
| 38 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 39 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 40 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 41 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 42 | any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse . |
| 43 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 44 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 45 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 46 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 47 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 48 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 49 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 50 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 51 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 52 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 53 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 54 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 55 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 56 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
| 58 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 59 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 60 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |