Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long after he should have turned away out of politeness she could feel his dark glance pricking all over her , sparing nothing . |
| 2 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 3 | Then he heaved in a breath that must have gone right down to his toes , and his whole body arched and stiffened , and then relaxed on as prolonged an exhalation . |
| 4 | Lee must have got safely up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 5 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 6 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 8 | This may be in the course of a meeting on alternative methods of therapy which the practitioner may have attended either out of a vague general interest or out of disenchantment with the results of orthodox treatments . |
| 9 | The loyal voter may have voted consistently out of party principle , or because ties of dependence persistently obliged him to defer to the wishes of committed partisans amongst the local elite . |
| 10 | I would have gone straight over to them . |
| 11 | The irony is that had the tower been higher and had the teak ‘ scrubbers ’ been less efficient , the smoke would have gone straight up into the air . |
| 12 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 13 | The river , suddenly materalizing , would have poured straight down into the streets , flooding everything , including the prison . |
| 14 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 15 | Next time Sam rolled the curtain up , Harry would have drifted quietly out of here , I should think , and no one would ever have known he 'd been here . |
| 16 | They both looked exotic even standing by the Nile and would have seemed remarkably out of place among us . |
| 17 | My mother 's hat , I thought , would have looked very out of place at one of those Nilotic feasts . |
| 18 | Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam 's wristwatch — she was n't wearing her own since it would have looked totally out of place with the slinky black number she was wearing — only to have her eyes riveted on his hands . |
| 19 | So when Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson hastily gave him a free transfer to Spain 's Sporting Gijon more than three years ago , you 'd have bet that the battered Irishman would have slipped quietly out of the limelight . |