Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may want to get rid of her anyway . |
| 2 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 3 | What I ca n't understand , though , is why the British should want to get involved . ’ |
| 4 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 5 | Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him . |
| 6 | Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches . |
| 7 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 8 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 9 | I should like to have known more about his views on possible links between social deprivation and suicidal intent , but perhaps that would be a different kind of book . |
| 10 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 11 | I should like to have had time to discuss such matters , but the paucity of progress made yesterday , the long speeches and the many amendments which had to be considered left the Government with no option but to move a guillotine motion today . |
| 12 | I think I should begin to get changed now if I were you . |
| 13 | Storage on optical media is possible , using document image processing ( DIP ) technology , but standards for optical media are still very fluid , and we must avoid becoming trapped by non-mainstream hardware/software . |
| 14 | History as a body of knowledge which all people who claim to be ‘ historians ’ must share has collapsed . |
| 15 | Number the items and try placing an " urgency rating " against each item : x- for those books already overdue at the library ; for that essay to be presented by next Monday ; for the tutorial paper you 're committed to give next Tuesday ; for less urgent items , like the laundry or shopping you must try to have done by the weekend . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |
| 17 | After the first week they should have grown used to the idea that on some evenings the pantry will be bare . |
| 18 | I always think I should have wrote written a book |
| 19 | Johnson should have stayed remembered like that — as a joke but also a dreadful warning . |
| 20 | So maybe it 's apt that he should have become entangled in Basic Instinct , a new psychosexual thriller starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone , which is based on a controversial script by Joe Eszterhas . |
| 21 | The tremendous post war housing development within the Borough has not benefited North Shields nearly as much as it should have done had its position been central . |
| 22 | There is no sign that silver was running short by 864 , as it should have done had tribute-payments made huge inroads into the total supply . |
| 23 | Yeah Rob yeah Rob you know you should have done taken like a hair out of your head , placed it in there before you and pulled it out . |
| 24 | You know what you should have done while you was up there this time you should have took asked for some samples . |
| 25 | I should have have checked that before I wrote it in . |
| 26 | You should you should have have heard her it was terrible I thought oh my God he 's he 's going to cut the atmosphere like a knife in her today . |
| 27 | She should have have thought of it before . |
| 28 | Pemberton 's defiance should have helped United to a point , which was the least they deserved . |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't manage the stairs , otherwise I should have got dressed . |
| 30 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |