Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
| 2 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 3 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 7 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 8 | I might have tried a few quick manoeuvres to lose those shadows . |
| 9 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 11 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 12 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 14 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 15 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 16 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 17 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 19 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 20 | We started by sending the Minister to a Desert Island , with just 8 records and 2 books ( come 19th May , we could have spared a few more ) . |
| 21 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I thought we would have got a few back after our last few results , but this seems to be par for the course lately . ’ |
| 22 | Still , they might have had a few more years left in them yet , and so in that respect , it was rather courageous of them to accept Nicholson 's script and Rafelson 's apparent decision that all good things must come to an end . |
| 23 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 24 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 25 | Jack 's ‘ going with someone ’ , as Karen Black put it , was still Mimi , a relationship which had survived all predictions ; and , though it may have stopped a few magic moments between him and Black , it did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars , Susan Anspach . |
| 26 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 27 | Not that she begrudged her sister happiness , but it must have raised a few " if only 's " in her own mind . |
| 28 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 30 | If he had been a drinking man he would have had a half pint in every establishment . |