Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 2 | The Government talk about the enlargement of the Community and apparently have included it as one of their objectives for the British presidency next year . |
| 3 | I would normally have killed them with one strike of my talons ! ’ |
| 4 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 5 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah but er it really has knocked me for six this time . |
| 9 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 10 | On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds . |
| 11 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 12 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She joined AIB Bank in Bankcentre branch in October 1980 and her career since then has taken her to 100 Grafton St. , 1985–90 and Mary Street from then until her transfer to Cabra in July 1992 . |
| 16 | But it begins with a sizeable group of numbers from The Fairy Queen — two of them , incidentally , countertenor solos written out in the treble clef and a tone below their original key — so Purcell may indeed have started it in 1692 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If she had n't reneged on her promise to go to Glenshee , Dane would never have followed her to that tiny cottage . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 22 | He would never have put it like that himself . |
| 23 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 24 | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more : it would certainly have spent it in different ways . |
| 25 | Ælfheah 's cult may therefore have presented him with considerable problems , and it is unlikely to be coincidence that the bishopric of London is known to have suffered at his hands . |
| 26 | Friendship with a man was nice , she decided , never having experienced it before this . |
| 27 | But his near-contemporary J. Chalmers , who had begun his apprenticeship in August 1900 , found himself still stuck at 14s in 1907 , when he was 21 years old , and over the next year or two his pay was usually between 23s and 27s a week : he seems never to have made it to 32s . |