Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] she [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would 've dropped her back . |
| 2 | Would he have given her up as lost ? |
| 3 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 4 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 5 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 6 | Well then yo , you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan ? |
| 7 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 8 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 9 | They might have tracked her down . ’ |
| 10 | I thought all your neighbours would have phoned her up and told her . |
| 11 | Uncle Philip might have made her over , already . |
| 12 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 13 | If we could have beamed her down like in Star Trek , it would have been all right , but she just could n't cope with getting on a plane or a boat . |
| 14 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We think Angy may have invited her round to her flat last Tuesday . |
| 16 | Her heart could have ached , could have dragged her down , but she did not let it , was keeping that lump of a heart on a short cruel chain like a dangerous dog . |
| 17 | Her breakdown can not be better described than in her own words : ‘ She saw , as she thought , devils opening their mouths all inflamed with burning waves of fire , as if they would have swallowed her in , sometimes ramping at her , sometimes threatening her … night and day , during the aforesaid time ’ . |
| 18 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 19 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 20 | He would n't have asked her out for a meal if he did n't like her , she reasoned . |
| 21 | It must have cost her over a quid . |
| 22 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 23 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 24 | You should n't have buttered her up when they had dinner here . ’ |
| 25 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
| 26 | We can hint that a less honourable man could have ground her up to mincemeat . ’ |
| 27 | Being deaf and blind , all this would have passed her by . |
| 28 | I 'd not have taken her in … ’ |
| 29 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 30 | ‘ But surely if there was difficulty and she had relations , they would have taken her back . ’ |