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Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ?
2	It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
3	See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done .
4	Now if you 'd 've told us that last Thursday we 'd 've thought
5	Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no .
6	See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well
7	We need we 've got lots more questions to ask you .
8	This Orient was , moreover a mirror in which Europe ( and subsequently America ) could see reflected its own supremacy .
9	Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall .
10	It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago .
11	He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date .
12	Now is it only K X that could have given me that ?
13	‘ I wish I had ; ‘ t would have given me some hope that you might come to care for me . ’
14	‘ I had hoped that joining Derry would have given me some hunger back for the game but it just has n't happened , ’ said Doherty .
15	The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival .
16	But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’
17	You might have given her another stroke . ’
18	At least he 'd have given her some decent ponies . ’
19	After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be .
20	She could have had my right arm if it would have given her any pleasure .
21	Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’
22	It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill .
23	Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines .
24	Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold .
25	The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle .
26	They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears .
27	This should have given them several useful advantages , including the right to trial by jury .
28	‘ Goodness , Mother , ’ said Margaret Seymour-Strachey , ‘ what can have given you that idea ? ’
29	Dr Greene must have given you all the facts . ’
30	Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been .