Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe Desert Storm should have gone on at least to Basrah , if not indeed to Baghdad . |
| 2 | The two best chances fell to Barmby ( a rebound that Beeney should have held onto in the frist place ) , and Rod Wallace , who skated past the Spurs defence onto a great through ball from Macca , His first time shot under pressure went just wide . |
| 3 | ‘ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points , ’ Brian Nicholas , the Bridgend coach , said . |
| 4 | All policies now stipulate that they must have run for between three and six months before claims will be considered — and most bar self-employed people altogether . |
| 5 | a lot of people would think , Ah oh X to the sixth well he must have started of with X to the seventh . |
| 6 | They must have walked for at least three miles and eventually came out of the wood and on to a pathway which led to a crossroads . |
| 7 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 8 | It 's the kind of music you might have danced to in the 1600s . |
| 9 | No plan for the upper floor is given , and the ground floor plan is very simple , with none of those carefully considered amenities that Dorothea might have looked for in Loudon 's Encyclopaedia . |
| 10 | So instead they turn to the past , to an idea of what the unspoiled working class community might have looked like in its classic phase before the War , before bombs , bulldozers and planners together swept away the old slum environment with its maze of narrow streets , its self-contained economy of tenements and factories , corner shops and pubs , and its equally complex , ingrown network of grannies , uncles and lifelong ‘ mates ’ . |
| 11 | There 's a little tiny so you can imagine what it might have looked like in the old paper . |
| 12 | They still might have won by at least two goals , but it was never to be . |
| 13 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 14 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 15 | As Sampras , who had suddenly found the steel and resilience that he could have done with in his match with Leconte 48 hours earlier , or even in the early stages of the third set against Forget , produced the lob to the baseline which made it 15–40 from the home team 's point of view , Noah sunk back into his seat in disbelief . |
| 16 | Notably the heavyweight nature of programmes on offer was just what we could have done without on a wet , dreary Monday evening . |
| 17 | I could have navigated to In Salah , regardless of the piste , unless I stepped on a cobra or got my throat cut , but it was no use getting there alone . |
| 18 | I did n't know about the RSPB or the RSPCA or any other caring agency I could have turned to for assistance . |
| 19 | Derek Hall got the goal ; a 1-1 draw was the best they could have hoped for from this match . |
| 20 | It was everything that Burton could have hoped for in the West End at that time . |
| 21 | The children have warmth , shelter and food ; much more than they could have dreamed about before the revolution . |
| 22 | It was n't the kind of display which we could have had in in a city centre environment , er but in this area , er it shows that we 're receptive to people 's needs and we care about what goes on . |
| 23 | Then , if you have that necessary possession for any writer , luck , your subconscious will provide you with developments you never could have thought of in cold blood . |
| 24 | Erm not really , I mean er the salary one we could have got into in greater depth when we were cut |
| 25 | It is difficult now to recapture what the Gorge may have looked like in Worcester 's or Aubrey 's day . |
| 26 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 27 | The merger would have resulted in by far Britain 's largest food company and placed it among the world league of major food groups , capitalised at around £5bn . |
| 28 | But the question must arise : what was it that Handel and his assistant would have thought of as a large harpsichord in 1750 ? |
| 29 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |