Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 2 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 3 | The DTI could have closed down the investment business there and then . |
| 4 | There 's another screech of brakes , and a van that should never have escaped out the scrapyard collapses shuddering in the road . |
| 5 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 6 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
| 7 | One would have expected that Alfred , as the eldest , would have taken over the family firm or that it would have been left to the four of you jointly . ’ |
| 8 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |