Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you see they 've had computers in hospitals now for years |
| 2 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | A total communication situation where you 've got you might you 've got use of body language you 've got use of language you 've got use of tone of voice and you 're making you 're getting the message across . |
| 4 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 5 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 6 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 7 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 8 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 9 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 10 | Secondly , that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it . |
| 11 | Well I think any change from one system , a total system like rates , to another total system like the Community Charge er would have given rise to misgivings . |
| 12 | I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’ |
| 13 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 14 | A better referee would have given fouls against Dowie most of the game … |
| 15 | He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday . |
| 16 | You may have heard talk of retaliation but it 's too early to talk about that , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 17 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 18 | Frain should have joined Sunderland for £350,000 but the move collapsed when Birmingham chairman Samesh Kumar demanded a clause be inserted in the deal that would give Birmingham 25 per cent of any sell-on fee . |
| 19 | If the sellers had known they were supplying an unventilated hopper , could they reasonably have regarded illness in pigs as a not unlikely consequence of that breach ? |
| 20 | Such detailed planning would have provoked snorts of derision from Sir Keith . |
| 21 | A Careers Officer would have developed skills in counselling pupils and have a broad knowledge of local industry . |
| 22 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 23 | You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps ? |
| 24 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 25 | Assume that the income generated in the trust by the £100,000 would have been , say , £10,000 and that therefore X , a 40 per cent taxpayer , would have received £6,000 after income tax . |
| 26 | Numbers of large mammals , including elephants , will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines . |
| 27 | Bristol did n't have their strongest side out but nothing would have stopped Gloucester on saturday … skipper Ian Smith scored the last try … 38-11 … just what coach keith richardson wanted |
| 28 | From Oxford Eila may well have travelled north through Woodstock , where that weekend there was a Barry Manilow concert , and then on to Charlbury Youth Hostel . |
| 29 | On Oct. 10 , the House of Representatives narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to override Bush 's veto of a bill which would have limited imports of textiles , clothing and shoes . |
| 30 | Public organisations do not have freedom to exit from " unprofitable markets " in this way and may have limited controls over inputs , for example , hiring and firing policies , pay levels , and so on . |