Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 32 | He could have parked it in the Hilton garage , but if he needed to leave suddenly that might be dangerous . |
| 33 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 34 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 35 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 36 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 37 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 38 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 39 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 40 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 41 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 42 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 43 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 44 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 45 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 46 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 47 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 49 | It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ . |
| 50 | I could n't have done it without the help my husband gave |
| 51 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 52 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 53 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |
| 54 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 55 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 56 | Could have done it from the front . |
| 57 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 59 | Except that if the Bishop 's good wife is there , she 'll probably have said it over the Bishop already . |
| 60 | There 's another thing what we 'd have all said when we got , you 'd have said it over the years yourself , erm , well just ring in and we 'll give you the price , you know , and if we kind of touch up to contract or flat rate or whatever is the way to get ahead , or you get whatever , ring Linda , or ring Jane and she says right , and we 've said that for years , |