Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't finished the process of elimination , but there was hardly anybody in the club in the afternoon except the residents and a few servants , and why the servants should try to blow up someone who was trying to improve their conditions is beyond me . ’ |
| 2 | I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll need to think up something . ’ |
| 4 | You 'll have to put down one . |
| 5 | He 'll have picked up something . |
| 6 | I 'd like to pick up something er , that Veronica touched on , you said women 's traditions , now , wha what are women 's traditions ? |
| 7 | They could have thought up something better than that could n't they ? |
| 8 | ‘ And no journalist , B.Sc. or not , could have picked up anything from it . |
| 9 | So it 'd go went down one it 'd go to three , went down again it 'd go to two . |
| 10 | ‘ Whoever would want to make up something like that ? ’ |
| 11 | I would like to work on lots of things in the inner cities and the community . |
| 12 | It would have helped , perhaps , had she not known that Odette , in her place , would have given up everything and anything had , in fact , already several times done so — for love . |
| 13 | We would have to pack up everything carefully on a Saturday night and travel on a Sunday . |
| 14 | ‘ Not very much , ’ she — I think I will say ‘ retorted ’ for the first time in my life , ‘ for I daresay Elizabeth will have to take off everything . ’ |
| 15 | Do n't you know that by now the Press will have dug up everything they can about your past ? ’ |
| 16 | However , there is a good chance that this inexperienced Welsh side will have picked up plenty of tips from the loss . |
| 17 | Both of these sides will have to bring out something special if they are to come as close as Jed to upsetting the championship applecart . |