Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family of four slept on through what could have been a tragedy in this farmhouse near Thame . |
| 2 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 3 | But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain . |
| 4 | Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going . |
| 5 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 6 | In between it can vary , depending on interest rates and the market . |
| 7 | Along with them will go the ents and the dwarves , indeed the whole imagined world of Middle-earth , to be replaced by modernity and the domination of men ; all the characters and their story , one might say , will shrink to poetic ‘ rigmaroles ’ and misunderstood snatches in plays and ballads . |
| 8 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 9 | It therefore comes down to who should develop the guidance . |
| 10 | We sometimes get the feeling that not all the bodies that come down to us need have done . ’ |
| 11 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |
| 12 | At one end was a bed — a double bed , I noticed — and a huge wardrobe ; at the other , a closed door led through into what must have been a very small room , a dressing-room perhaps . |
| 13 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 14 | After all , death frightens the hell out of everyone ; so once you 'd gone and got it over with you might feel quite light-hearted . ’ |
| 15 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 16 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 17 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 18 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
| 19 | But as we 're completely in the dark about what sort of intelligence service — if any — we 're up against it would do no harm to take precautions . |
| 20 | If there 's anyone up atop they might give trouble . ’ |
| 21 | could you firm it up a little bit with him you firm it up with I 'll talk to Scottish Homes |
| 22 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 23 | They 'd come from the other way from er Snade Lane not Broad Lane , they 'd come up from they 'd come farther round , round and come in th in round the back sort of thing and we we 'd got no headquarters any more . |
| 24 | Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week . |
| 25 | Run home , get changed wait , have a bath then go up to they 'll pick me up to go babysitting over there . |
| 26 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
| 27 | There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race . |
| 28 | And they say if any jobs come up at you would need it there . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that the Mexican government spends almost 25 per cent of its budget on education , a high proportion of the population is still relatively poor , semi-literate and ill-equipped to grasp even the fundamentals of the legal system , let alone to take it on in what would appear to be a very one-sided battle against the establishment and its administration . |
| 30 | Quite good English , the icing did n't turn out as it might have done , ca n't have what it might have done . |