Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I mean let's lets face it you 'll be sat in the car you 're gon na get crumpled are n't you ? |
| 2 | The convention establishes procedures for the transport and disposal of toxic waste , and insists that the country for which the waste is intended should agree to receive it before it leaves port — an effort to avoid incidents such as the 1988 voyage from port to port of the Karin B. Environmentalists have criticized the convention for its lack of " teeth " — enforcement is left to individual countries — and for its lack of precision on what constitutes acceptable disposal standards . |
| 3 | Money and the knowledge money can buy would have saved her . |
| 4 | This book is in general good , but a chapter on foregrounding would have made it so much better . |
| 5 | At this point worrying about the language we used would have inhibited us . |
| 6 | ‘ If the condition had not been diagnosed might have discovered he was ill when it was too late to do anything , ’ said . |
| 7 | What do you think might have done it ? ’ |
| 8 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 9 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |
| 10 | They want him to detonate such a great burst of passion that all those millions of waverers upon whom so much depends will rush to support him . |
| 11 | When er I I John I hope will have told you on the phone that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments . |
| 12 | What other things do you think could have helped you ? |
| 13 | Rogers believes earlier intervention focusing on her glue sniffing could have stopped her becoming a persistent offender . |
| 14 | Many people when they have something to discuss may prefer to take it outside their family group to an old friend or a trusted adviser . |
| 15 | All at TODAY Racing would like to wish you a happy Christmas and a very profitable 1993 . |
| 16 | A well-rounded elder statesman : Denis Healey has a personal Hinterland , filled with poetry , history , classics and philosophy , which he fears may have made him an over-tolerant politician . |
| 17 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 18 | For some of the expressions employed would seem to lay it down that a joint debtee might release one of his debtors , and yet , by using some language of reservation in the agreement between himself and such debtor , keep his remedy entire against the others , even without consulting them . |
| 19 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 20 | That includes France which has seen an increase in footage of a thirty thousand square feet and we 've also got a number of sub-lets we 've indicated that erm sub-lets should pay reduces it |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what I thought must have made her do it . ’ |
| 22 | Yes , United should have seen it and a third strike would have killed Charlton off , but Oxford began to lose fire power . |
| 23 | He stayed close , hoping his warmth might help her , staring protectively out into the night as if the strange images he saw might try to harm her . |
| 24 | United could have taken it . |
| 25 | The peasants ' plough , according to critics , ‘ scratched the soil ’ but deep ploughing would have destroyed it . |
| 26 | The Women 's Tennis Association have announced that fines for playing in an exhibition without approval in the same week as a major event have been sharply increased to a level which it is hoped will help to prevent it happening again . |
| 27 | Whatever reply Jesus gave would have placed him in danger . |
| 28 | Ron Robinson took charge of this element and the gathering that was achieved might have caused him more than a few ulcers , but he had to admit was more than worth the effort ! |
| 29 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 30 | He might have done , he 's very a strong mighty chap and I do n't know that anything I said could have influenced him and anyway Brenda to be perfectly honest I wo I wo |