Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … the earliest agriculture must have grown up round the shrines of the Mother Goddess , which thus became social and economic centres , as well as holy places , and were the germs of the future cities . |
| 2 | The Lane must have fallen out of use in this stretch within living memory . |
| 3 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 4 | It was after dark when he finally regained consciousness with the jolting realization that the snake should have caught up with him . |
| 5 | I remember a terrific noise in the night , and thinking that a submarine must have got through after all , dashed into Pop 's cabin to be told that it was only coal being poured into the bunkers below decks ! |
| 6 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 7 | If he did that , some of our constituents might receive benefits , and the people involved in crime might get sent down for longer periods . |
| 8 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 9 | The boom would have run out of steam very quickly indeed if capitalists had been forced to find extra employees to operate all the new machines . |
| 10 | During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded . |
| 11 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 12 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 13 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 14 | Hopefully that tape will have run out by now . |
| 15 | I said hopefully that tape will have run out by now . |
| 16 | It did no more , said the Fund , because Russia did not rein back mounting inflation — and Western money might have piled up in bank balances abroad . |
| 17 | This machine should have run out of petrol many hours ago , ’ said the Doctor , sounding as if he did not want to be interrupted . |
| 18 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 19 | How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ? |
| 20 | The boy must have gone off with them . |
| 21 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 22 | ‘ There is n't a budget for this , ’ says JWT 's joint managing director William Eccleshare , but a quick tally of advertising costs per paper shows the campaign could have cost up to £450,000 . |
| 23 | The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state . |
| 24 | And he said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 25 | But Blades manager Dave Bassett reflected on his early days in charge of Vinny Jones and Co. at Wimbledon and said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 26 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 27 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 28 | The Old Reaper would have caught up with him in weeks , probably , months at most . |
| 29 | THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect . |
| 30 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |