Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 2 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 3 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 4 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 5 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 6 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |
| 7 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 8 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 9 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 10 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 11 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 12 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 13 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 14 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 15 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 16 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 17 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 18 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 19 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 20 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 21 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 22 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 23 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 24 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 25 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 27 | It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ . |
| 28 | I could n't have done it without the help my husband gave |
| 29 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 30 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |