Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 2 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 3 | Benjamin Titford , by contrast , must have trusted his children to see that Elizabeth was fairly dealt with — and his trust appears to have been justified . |
| 4 | ‘ It was not something I would have recommended my clients to do . ’ |
| 5 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 6 | The material which yesterday had draped them now lay in discarded heaps on the stones of the paving below , and men were hastily tacking new lengths — the mercers and drapers must have ransacked their warehouses to find enough , and the cost would no doubt make the court treasurer blench — to the framework . |
| 7 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 8 | ‘ You could have told your men to try and make life difficult for me , in the hope that eventually I 'll get so fed up that I 'll accept your offer . |
| 9 | As with the designers of the Douglas pistonliner family , those that designed the test-rigs to go in support of the Pratt & Whitneys could never have envisaged their creations having to last as long as they have . |
| 10 | By investing the war with a transcendent moral purpose , Acland may have helped his followers to silence the promptings of their pacifist consciences . |
| 11 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 12 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 13 | I expect that most of the children will have had their injuries dealt with . |
| 14 | Some dinosaurs that evolved during the Permian/Triassic reduced their body mass by around 35 per cent or more , and may have had their dimensions reduced by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | They must have had their faces upturned when the bomb went off ; perhaps they were anti-aircraft personnel . |
| 16 | ‘ Must have had their calls re-routed through the exchange , ’ Keith whispered back . |
| 17 | For all I know these little games may have had their origins hidden in long tradition . |
| 18 | In addition , married women may well have had their careers interrupted by child-rearing . |
| 19 | If , amidst the generally apocalyptic atmosphere of the time , devout Jews were anxiously awaiting the advent of two Messiahs — one royal from David , one priestly from Aaron — they would have had their eyes fixed on a limited number of families . |
| 20 | If at one in the morning last night Tod had had his brain switched on , he could have had his minders sort me out there and then . |
| 21 | In thirteenth century Venice , such men would have been flogged and branded on the forehead , while a law of the Hanseatic League in the fifteenth and sixteenth century had provided that any sailor who deserted the master of his ship in time of danger would have had his ears slit ! |
| 22 | ‘ And I 'm equally sure , ’ McGann went on , ‘ that Bill must have thought us bishops blind to the potential for a Communist threat in this hemisphere … |
| 23 | are , are out , are out now , in , in relation to consultation and user groups and their re or representative organizations , have been asked to comment in relation to the whole process before we go , we get to Panel and P and R er , so that we get , and then full Council , so we will get some indication , and twenty six particularly , so that , maybe those members in the last er , er , Council do realize they might have got , we might have got our fingers burnt in relation to this particular issue . |
| 24 | When they reached the sixth form all the ones that would have called them names had left . ’ |
| 25 | She could have sworn his eyes lingered on the scarf about her neck . |
| 26 | If George 's schooling had done its job he 'd have known his ancestors speaking just so . |
| 27 | Although Novell could have depleted its reserves to make the purchase , why should they ? |
| 28 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 29 | Doubts about the son 's ability to ensure that this bequest remained intact in the face of other claimants may have led his co-trustees to start the legal action . |
| 30 | The duchess may have discussed her plans to step into the political arena when she had dinner with her private secretary Jane Ambler and two mystery male companions the previous evening . |