Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left tradition was reinforced by the belief that the war would not have broken out had the Chamberlain government done something to prevent it , a view held by many who had nothing to do with the Left . |
| 2 | Following such a complaint , the witness may have looked around to investigate the cause of the accident and they should be asked about this . |
| 3 | As one of the innocent men remarked outside court : ‘ Much more would have come out had the trial continued . ’ |
| 4 | I think I must have twisted round to get the shampoo awkward . |
| 5 | I could have messed about to get the price under 20m to make them legit. teans but I could n't be arsed ! |
| 6 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 7 | They might have set out to reform the planning system , giving greater independence to public enterprises , establishing more effective accounting and regulation of economic performance , and also enlarging the share of medium- and small-scale private enterprise in production , trade and services ; in short , to move gradually towards a system of market socialism or to a mixed economy in which public ownership and planning would still have a substantial place . |
| 8 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 9 | How , for instance , would he have gone about getting the dynamite ? ’ |
| 10 | Colonel Moore , moved and perturbed , would have stood up to encounter the man squarely on but the pressure of Hope 's grip kept him down in his seat . |
| 11 | If they , if they do n't become media personalities and do all the things they do on the telly and visit the hospitals , then we might very well get fed up paying the money for them when you consider the Queen is the richest person in the world is she not ? |