Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We actually should have gone to Edinburgh in November to receive the award but as we are all volunteers none of us could make it , ’ said Jean Reid , secretary of Islay and Jura Community Enterprise . |
| 2 | IAN WRIGHT should have gone to Sweden with England this summer and now deserves a recall for the friendly in Spain . |
| 3 | Innocent maintained that Philip should have gone to Rome for absolution but for the moment he let the matter rest . |
| 4 | ‘ I still feel he should have gone to university like the other two . |
| 5 | She said the man , who admitted attempting to have sex with her when she was eight , should have gone to prison for two or three years . |
| 6 | Indeed , had these two phenomena been directly proportional , the decreases should have amounted to 80% for the transcripts of all involved genes . |
| 7 | The sensible measure to use will be market share in the network operating system market says David Smith , the company 's UK systems marketing manager ; Smith puts Microsoft 's current share with LAN Manager at 30% and says that all of those should have switched to NT within a couple of years ; the lion 's share is of course held by Novell Inc , but Smith says the primary aim is not to try and win NetWare users — instead Microsoft will try to ‘ grow the entire market ’ |
| 8 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 9 | She supposed that Maria Luisa must have turned to Fernando in her despair when Steve had left Seville and that was how their affair had started ; now Fernando was so besotted it edged towards obsession and he was doing crazy things like holding her here against her will for some sort of revenge on Steve . |
| 10 | He must have gone to bed with her . |
| 11 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 12 | He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock . |
| 13 | Bats must have come to terms with the jamming-avoidance problem long ago . |
| 14 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 15 | Competition between different groups of dolphins might have led to extinctions in some groups , but there is no direct evidence . |
| 16 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 17 | Changes in weight and waist-hip ratio during the three year follow up period could have led to misclassification of women . |
| 18 | If she could have gone to bed with him at that moment it would have been all right . |
| 19 | I could have gone to Birmingham in that time . |
| 20 | I could have gone to America with him , but I did n't because I refuse to fly . |
| 21 | You could have bled to death in this place could n't you ? |
| 22 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 23 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 24 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 25 | Certainly it was more localized ( by town ) than its counterpart in England , and the relative autonomy of local unions may have contributed to weaknesses in the early days . |
| 26 | He may have gone to Italy in order to escape the regime of Queen Mary I , and his support of the Protestant settlement of 1559 was clear , but his credit suffered because his Catholic wife practised her faith within his household . |
| 27 | All this evidence strongly suggests that ( h ) has been a variable in English for many centuries : [ h ] -loss may have gone to completion in some varieties at particular times and places , but in general speech communities have used the variation over these centuries for stylistic and social marking . |
| 28 | He may have fled to Spain at some time , and apparently owned land in the Canary Islands . |
| 29 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 30 | The Danes , and the Swedes , were already perceived to pose a missionary problem in the ninth century ; their Christianization was one response to what would become known to historians as the Viking threat . |