Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lionan and Mullach , and Jinneth , could be out there somewhere now , waiting for a signal to attack — or Jinneth could have brought the signal herself . |
| 2 | A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour . |
| 3 | Gloves off as Kendall and Clough must graft to dodge the drop |
| 4 | Amis 's admiring study of Fleming , The James Bond Dossier ( 1965 ) , acknowledged much of all that with a characteristic bluntness , and in ‘ a spiteful tangent ’ or side-swipe against Eliot and Modernism he remarked that ‘ a few mentions of ( say ) Nestlé 's condensed milk , Woodbines , Spinks 's plum-and-apple jam and Scotch-and-Apollinaris would have done The Waste Land a world of good ’ , the lack of a socio-temporal context having left Eliot 's poem ‘ just one more of the featureless , flavourless lumps of cultural lumber it purports to be superior to ’ . |
| 5 | Together , Hunter and McColgan could help achieve the first British team success since the English women 's squad triumphed at Neuchatel , Swotzerland , in 1986 . |
| 6 | And that 's something that Mike and Ken will help dig the historical contracts out and , and suggest er a remit . |
| 7 | But Milan would have to be dealt with again , and Barbarossa would return to quell the troublesome Italians on more than one occasion . |
| 8 | Beeny and Wetherall would have to share the blame , but there was no glaring mistakes . |
| 9 | Such license had effectively been denied Galileo who , by his friend Ciampoli , had been advised to suppress remarks that might imply extraterrestrial life : Would they not invite awkward questions such as how descendants of Adam and Eve could have reached the moon ? |
| 10 | In conclusion , the nativistic position presented by McNeill and Chomsky may have overestimated the contribution to language learning which must be ascribed to innate knowledge and underrepresented the part played by child-environment interactions . |
| 11 | Six points against Swindon and Cambridge would help to erase the disappointment of the FA Cup defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 12 | Elaine could have delivered the night before — after midnight , to have the same date of birth — and perhaps Mrs Maybury was n't on duty that night — and Elaine could have left the next day , so Mrs Maybury was telling the truth when she said she 'd never seen her . ’ |
| 13 | Coleridge and Southey may have crossed the River Parrett at Bridgwater in order to reach Shurton ; more probably , like Thomas De Quincey thirteen years later , they decided to shorten the journey by using the river ferry at Combwich Reach . |
| 14 | Then William and Harry would have had the support of their parents during what must undoubtedly be a very traumatic time for them . |
| 15 | And William and Harry could practise managing the Duchy of Cornwall with a second-hand Monopoly set at £5.95 . |
| 16 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 17 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 18 | And yet , the letters were signed ‘ S. ’ for Sandra Kettering , and Sandra must have left the typed note of her most private intentions in the Piero book opposite ‘ The Flagellation ’ . |
| 19 | Balboa and Magellan might have found the classification very droll , but the fact remains that for purposes of cartographic , organizational and now administrative convenience , the Pacific Ocean is simply-far too big . |
| 20 | ‘ Now what I want to do is go through the blocking today , so that Micky and George can start to feel the shape of the production . |
| 21 | Once a match between Cornwall and Lancashire would have included the cream of English rugby , but tomorrow only a handful of players are from top clubs . |
| 22 | How poignantly vignetted was the ice in Alexander Nevsky , but Eisenstein would have stabbed the projectionist with icicles . |
| 23 | But Robert could have wished the man would get some false teeth . |
| 24 | No archbishop but Fisher would have had the administrative ability or the tenacity to achieve the end . |
| 25 | The referee might have been wrong , but Cantona should have buried the chance and , determined as they were , Leeds quickly learned just why in 119 previous matches Rangers had not lost a lead . |
| 26 | But Andrew will have to keep the children . |
| 27 | Watford had the best of the early exchanges , but Leeds should have taken the lead after 16 minutes . |