Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only occasionally ( as in the 1830s and the 1870s ) did conflict burst out in an overt and organized expression of discontent . |
| 2 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 3 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 4 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 5 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 6 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 7 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 8 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 9 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no way we would have got in under a Labour government . ’ |
| 11 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 12 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 13 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 14 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 15 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 16 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 17 | By 1900 no gentleman and few ladies would have gone out without a smart , tightly furled umbrella of black silk with a touch of silver on the handle . |
| 18 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 19 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 20 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 21 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 22 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 23 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 24 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 25 | How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ? |
| 26 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 27 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 28 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 29 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 30 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |