Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun] " 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 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 3 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could have parked it in the Hilton garage , but if he needed to leave suddenly that might be dangerous . |
| 8 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 9 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 10 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 14 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 15 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 16 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 17 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 18 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 19 | By then , the techniques of study should have soaked you in the subjects you are studying . |
| 20 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 21 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 22 | A good American would have had her in the kitchen with a flue-brush , or making pastry , by now . |
| 23 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 24 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 25 | Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight . |
| 26 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
| 27 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 28 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 29 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 30 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |