Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 2 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 3 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 4 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 5 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 6 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 7 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 8 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 9 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 10 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 11 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 12 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 13 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 14 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 15 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 16 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 17 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 18 | ‘ Must have gone out in a hurry . |
| 19 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 20 | — established views on the issue raised by the question , which you will have learned about in the class or by your own reading ; |
| 21 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 22 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 23 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 24 | That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’ |
| 25 | I let myself get caught up in a legend — a fairy-tale . |
| 26 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 27 | The swivel will turn with the bird 's movements , so that it does n't get caught up in the leash . |
| 28 | Did it get caught up in the branches ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's inevitable that you 'll get caught out in the rain at some time . |
| 30 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |