Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal . |
| 2 | Dr. Rowland Atkinson , who was Charles Roe 's brother-in-law , probably paid frequent visits to Coniston and may have rented a house for these locally . |
| 3 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 4 | John Chalcraft saw this happen and must have wondered a thing or two after 50 years personal involvement . |
| 5 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 6 | Another ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry on Regardless , which seemed to offer nothing new and might have died a death at the box office had it not had those magic first two words in the title which by now assured a box office hit . |
| 7 | Although minors , they had legal rights of their own , and could have engaged a solicitor , but they were never informed of these rights . |
| 8 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 9 | Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’ |
| 10 | Lyn was relegated from norw. premiership this season after the most dramatic relegation battle for years — they had to beat Brann , Bergen away with at least five goals and also Molde had to loose at home to Tromsoe. well Molde lost 1–0 and could have had a penalty . |
| 11 | Peterborough weathered the storm and could have taken a shock lead after 31 minutes . |
| 12 | BULGARIAN star Bontcho Guentchev was given an unexpected debut just days after receiving international clearance — and could have bagged a double as Ipswich moved up to sixth in the Premier League . |
| 13 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
| 14 | It looked like something indescribable , but I must admit it smelt and tasted good , and anyway we were all starving and would have eaten a horse . |
| 15 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 16 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 17 | The sort of person Moran was would have been an IRA person and belonged to the IRA at the foundation of the country and would have had a tricolour on his coffin . |
| 18 | In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb . |
| 19 | He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% . |
| 20 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 21 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
| 22 | The strings available to Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran in the mid-'50s would have ranged from medium ( .011-.52 or more ) to heavy ( .013-.60 ) gauge and would have included a wound third . |
| 23 | His summing-up left the jury in no doubt about his own views and would have required a jury of quite exceptional perversity to have brought in a guilty verdict . |
| 24 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 25 | The controversial striker took time to settle , but might have had a hat-trick , missing the target when clean through in either half . |