Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dammit , Tallboy , even given the poverty of your mind and the inadequacy of police training nowadays , surely they must have taught you that madmen , nutters , as you call them , follow a pattern ? |
| 2 | Should have seen me and mum in the loft then . |
| 3 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 4 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 5 | ‘ I could have got him when Liverpool let him go but I said balls to him . |
| 6 | She rushed at Fagin and would have hit him if Sikes had not held her arms so tightly that she could n't move . |
| 7 | Sue thinks someone must have loved me as Pete loves her . |
| 8 | ‘ We could have fought an honourable , Observer-Guardian-style war with the Ludovic Kennedys in charge , but we would have lost it and Britain would have been enslaved , ’ he wrote . |