Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 2 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 3 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 4 | God knows what lie she 'd have made up to the staff , and they 'd have believed her . |
| 5 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 6 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 7 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 8 | Steve would have read her note , waited for her to phone and say she had arrived safely and when she had n't he would have driven up to the north of the island to find her . |
| 9 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
| 10 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 11 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 12 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 13 | Without Fergie 's influence , for example , she would never have gone along to the Berkeley Square night club , Annabel 's , as she did on the night of Prince Andrew 's stag party , with Fergie and comedienne Pamela Stephenson , both of them dressed up as policewomen . |
| 14 | You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong . |
| 15 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 16 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 17 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 18 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 19 | Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground . |
| 20 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 21 | Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing . |
| 22 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 23 | ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says . |
| 24 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |