Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CENTRE : Gladstone with its Royal Train coat of arms of the kind it might have carried on London to Epsom Derby Day trains . |
| 2 | We would have picked up readings on arrival . |
| 3 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 4 | ( Charles may have picked up malaria in Italy in 875 : he was seriously ill from late July to mid-August 876 , and from December 876 to January 877 . |
| 5 | They would have stirred up trouble for nothing . |
| 6 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 7 | Kinnock 's success in altering party policy was made easier , if less meaningful , by the end of the cold war , but a public onslaught on the Conservatives ' military record , including the maintainance of Trident , would have opened up debate within Labour ranks , as well as risking alienating voters on the question of defence employment . |
| 8 | ‘ I should never have brought up Estella like that , or allowed you to be hurt ! ’ |
| 9 | THE recent late splash of summer must have brought back memories of September 1940 , and the Battle of Britain , for many people in this province . |
| 10 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
| 11 | Thus the Greater London Council proposed in their evidence to Williams that the law should prohibit any depictions ‘ which purport to portray an unlawful sexual act ’ , a course which might have ruled out sin as a serious subject for filmed drama . |
| 12 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 13 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 14 | ‘ The police will have put out checks on every hospital for miles . |
| 15 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 16 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ We should have killed off Clare in the second-half when we had wind advantage and an extra man , but we failed to do so . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’ |
| 19 | The newspaper said Reagan officials , and to a lesser extent officials from the administrations of Jimmy Carter and George Bush , may have covered up evidence of abuses to win approval from Congress of $6 billion ( £4 billion ) in aid . |
| 20 | Or the sensitivity to cow's-milk could have cleared up thanks to a month of avoidance . |
| 21 | Souness might have singled out Wright for the chop but he was in no mood to spare his team-mates from criticism . |
| 22 | So we got behind So I said well we 'll tr I 'll try and get caught up sort of , in the new year you know , get them a bit . |