Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 2 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 3 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 4 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 5 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 6 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 7 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 8 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 9 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 10 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 11 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 14 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 15 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 16 | Beneath the overwhelming memories of physical delight there were fears — a fear that she might not have measured up in some way . |
| 17 | I am sure that I would have got on with both men , famously well . |
| 18 | A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently . |
| 19 | We might have rode along in that coach the whole night while I just stood there in front of the office . |
| 20 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 21 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 22 | Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ? |
| 23 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 24 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 25 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 26 | So the old ones they 'd have taken back to that yard place would n't they ? |
| 27 | I said , ‘ Goodness me , if you were really ill , you could never have stood up to this trip the way you have . |
| 28 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 29 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 30 | Now Rangers face the backlash in a top-five clash at Old Trafford today , with evergreen skipper Wilkins , 36 , saying : ‘ I thought they 'd have bounced back after that defeat . |