Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " 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 He might have got on to the motorway . ’
5 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 .
6 He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong .
11 She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground .
15 Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says .
18 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 .
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