Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 2 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 3 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 4 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 5 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 6 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 7 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 8 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 9 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 10 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 11 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 12 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 13 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 14 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 15 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 16 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 17 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 18 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 19 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 20 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 21 | and then I could have shown mine to this lady , cos I mean the only difference is is the black and white is n't it ? |
| 22 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 23 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 24 | Marx 's recognition of the specificity of motives under capitalism should have alerted us to this problem . |
| 25 | Once you became head of the department , you could have pulled me off this job at any time . |
| 26 | This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case . |
| 27 | But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary . |
| 28 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 29 | My father would have put it in another way : ‘ Zol zey alamin chappen a cholera . ’ |
| 30 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |