Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] in 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 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 3 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 4 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 8 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He could have parked it in the Hilton garage , but if he needed to leave suddenly that might be dangerous . |
| 11 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 12 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 13 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 19 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 20 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 21 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 22 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 23 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 24 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 25 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 26 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 27 | By then , the techniques of study should have soaked you in the subjects you are studying . |
| 28 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 29 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 30 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |