Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 2 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 3 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 4 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 5 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 6 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 7 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 8 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 9 | She would never have guessed it from the wildly anachronistic costumes . |
| 10 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |
| 11 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 12 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 13 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 14 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 15 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 16 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 17 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 18 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 19 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 20 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 21 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 22 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 23 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 24 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 25 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 26 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 27 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 28 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 29 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 30 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |