Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 2 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 3 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 5 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 6 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 7 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 8 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 9 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
| 10 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 11 | As for Joe , who blithely missed a fracture a yard across , she could have pinned him to the wall with a scalpel , she was so cross . |
| 12 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 13 | As one consultant said : ‘ We may have overdone it to the extent that , apart from in certain industries , risk management may well already be regarded as old hat . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 15 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 16 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 17 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 18 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 19 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 20 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 21 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 22 | Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her . |
| 23 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |