Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 2 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 3 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 4 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 5 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 6 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 7 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 8 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |
| 9 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 10 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |