Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Milken could have received up to 28 years in prison , most observers were surprised by the severity of his sentence . |
| 2 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 3 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 4 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 5 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 6 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 7 | They could have applied up to five years . |
| 8 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 9 | When it was on scheduled service , the jumbo would have had up to 450 passengers and 12 crew on board . |
| 10 | A stone of about eighteen inch four by four with the appropriate heading I would have thought up to four names , depending on how many names there is in the |
| 11 | I am sure that I would have got on with both men , famously well . |
| 12 | I do n't see how he should have got off with 7 years . |
| 13 | A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently . |
| 14 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 15 | Southampton should have hit back after 28 minutes when Carl Tiler pulled down Nicky Banger . |
| 16 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 17 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 18 | Doctors performing illegal abortions and their assistants would have faced up to two years in prison , although the woman undergoing an abortion would not have been punished unless she had performed it herself . |
| 19 | I do n't mean put down like bloody tramlines . |
| 20 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 21 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 22 | I 'm not pushy enough to dig out real controversies , and I ca n't get worked up about red-hot issues . |
| 23 | If he did that , some of our constituents might receive benefits , and the people involved in crime might get sent down for longer periods . |
| 24 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |