Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 2 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 3 | Oh I always give you first cup , I 'll have to give you the last one then . |
| 4 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 5 | If … if there 's time , I 'd like to show you the new salon in Albemarle Street . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 7 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 8 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 9 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 10 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 11 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 12 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 13 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 14 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 15 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 16 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 17 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 18 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 19 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 20 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 21 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 22 | I would hate to do it the other way . |
| 23 | We will endeavour to give you the best possible service to ensure a trouble-free and enjoyable holiday . |
| 24 | Whichever way it will have cost you the best part of £100 for the first survey , and this is not refundable . |
| 25 | We are constantly trying to improve our standards so that we can continue to offer you the best possible service . |