Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 2 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 3 | Yeah because the other thing is that although erm you might have all these sort of high flying ideas about what you wan na do and you do n't actually feel tied down by a relationship , actually you do live your life thinking well ca n't really do that because I wan na be with him . |
| 4 | Neither will you feel left out of the night life , because , again , the ship 's crew have special instructions to make sure that people travelling alone are always included in every activity . |
| 5 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 6 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 7 | Two , that we do not become wrapped up in the Bureaucratic socialism of Brussels and that true entrepreneur spirit is encouraged between cities . |
| 8 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 9 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 10 | Only occasionally ( as in the 1830s and the 1870s ) did conflict burst out in an overt and organized expression of discontent . |
| 11 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 12 | There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall . |
| 13 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 14 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 15 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 16 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 17 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 18 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 19 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 20 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 21 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 22 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 23 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 24 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 25 | In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity . |
| 26 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 27 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |
| 28 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 29 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 30 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |