Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 3 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 4 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 5 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 6 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 7 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 8 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 9 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 10 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 11 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 12 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 13 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 14 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 15 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 16 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 17 | ‘ Surely someone should have checked out the complaints more carefully . ’ |
| 18 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 19 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 20 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 21 | Had it occurred in the West , competing teams of scientists from many different countries and institutions would have carried out a mass of surveys of the victims and of the environmental damage . |
| 22 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 23 | But for the support of these societies the Cizek school could never have carried out the work that it is doing . |
| 24 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 25 | You should therefore have carried out an objective , professional assessment of the level of risk making sure that : |
| 26 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 27 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 28 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 29 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 30 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |