Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 2 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 3 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 4 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 5 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 6 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 7 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 8 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 9 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 10 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 11 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 12 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 13 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 14 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 15 | — established views on the issue raised by the question , which you will have learned about in the class or by your own reading ; |
| 16 | That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’ |
| 17 | The swivel will turn with the bird 's movements , so that it does n't get caught up in the leash . |
| 18 | Did it get caught up in the branches ? ’ |
| 19 | It 's inevitable that you 'll get caught out in the rain at some time . |
| 20 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 21 | Andrew says he 's fitter than last year but doesn.t know if he can beat his wife Sarah who says she thinks her husband might get bogged down in the mud |