Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 2 | ‘ Hear you 've got great things going on over there . ’ |
| 3 | KOMEI Sugawara 's letter and Norm Hadley 's words — like Ian Williams ' in his book ‘ In Touch ’ — must have given worldwide rugby fans another view of Japanese rugby . |
| 4 | Maritz is not returning to the L.P.G.A. She will play in Europe again next season , by which stage she believes that she will have gathered sufficient experience to fix her sights on America . |
| 5 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 6 | I was more surprised than gratified , for without having really considered it I would have expected unsolicited adoration to annoy Nour , to lead to stone-throwing … |
| 7 | April might have forbidden Wee Charlie to have any more lemonade , but she 'd said nothing about sweets . |
| 8 | It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area , and supervise their clean-up . |
| 9 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 10 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 11 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 12 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 13 | He will have made sure Virginia looked as beautiful and sensuous as possible . |
| 14 | Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp . |
| 15 | It was very possibly from that actual spring that Mary would have made daily journeys to fetch water . |
| 16 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 17 | If we had wanted that we would have used medical questionnaires to evaluate physical and mental health , listed the facilities and defects in each house , and asked for income and expenditure budgets . |
| 18 | On the eve of the television debate , El Mundo , a Madrid newspaper that has uncovered several corruption scandals involving the Socialists , said that the party may have used dodgy methods to finance its campaign before the 1986 referendum on whether Spain should stay in NATO . |
| 19 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 20 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 21 | The loops and rings around it would have had small bells attached to them , and at the broken end would have been a piece of coral or ivory to act as a teether . |
| 22 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 23 | Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . " |
| 24 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 25 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 26 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 27 | Just as well someone had rung Catherine half an hour ago , or they 'd both still have been asleep , and he would have had difficult questions to answer in the morning about why he had been , uncharacteristically , out of touch with everyone since leaving Yeo Davis at six . |
| 28 | Some parishes contained chapelries or chapels-of-ease , which may or may not have had independent rights to perform baptism , marriage and burial ceremonies . |
| 29 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
| 30 | By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) . |