Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 2 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 3 | More damning evidence came from Polly , who said she had seen her mother in Cardiff about a year previously with three children , and a day later had seen her without any . |
| 4 | Maybe , briefly , he had awakened in her a craving for the wild , the dangerous , the forbidden , but whatever had happened later had cured her of that . |
| 5 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 6 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 7 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 8 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 9 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 10 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 11 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 12 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 13 | If she had n't reneged on her promise to go to Glenshee , Dane would never have followed her to that tiny cottage . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 15 | He would never have put it like that himself . |
| 16 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 17 | Friendship with a man was nice , she decided , never having experienced it before this . |