Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there any hint that you might be forced to make an inver an inversion o in that sense that er you would be able so that you would have to make statements like that as you 've made you you 've turned them that the employer 's statement on it 's head ? |
| 2 | Daft as it seems , we could have won it because the kick was produced too quick for Paul Simpson and we hit the ball later on , Mark Stein 's a little back header , very unlucky not to win it for us . |
| 3 | ‘ If Fraser had n't mucked about when he got back and found she 'd gone , we might have caught her before the boat sailed . ’ |
| 4 | Thus the letter to the shop manager should have instructed him that the goods should not be exposed or displayed or offered for sale without the label first being removed . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the Jacobite Guinea should have convinced him that the thief intended to keep his side of the bargain . |
| 6 | Only an agreed statement of his rights vis-à-vis the Christians of the Ottoman Empire would have convinced him that the game had been worth the candle . |
| 7 | Rational judgement might have told him that the nation 's plight was hopeless , but his was the vision of an avenging prophet . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 9 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 10 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 11 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 12 | Instead , European buyers could pay some $23m more than the $200m their chips would probably have cost them if the market had been left to itself . |
| 13 | Mr Hawkey added : ‘ The critics may not have liked it but the kids did . ’ |
| 14 | I would have murdered her if the knife had been sharper . |
| 15 | On entering the yard through the correct entrance , they would have been met by me , who would then have informed them that the smoke was merely magic smoke to lend atmosphere to the proceedings and that there was no cause for total panic as some pupils would seem to be prone to . ’ |