Example sentences of "probably [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably got fed up . |
| 2 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 3 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 4 | The user probably has limited expertise and he may be working under various stress conditions . |
| 5 | Female choice probably has selected for many of the properties of courtship , such as the ‘ zigzag ’ display and red belly of male sticklebacks . |
| 6 | amalgamating , with another firm so the paper work probably has got lost So I |
| 7 | But he probably has got it . |
| 8 | and I think he probably has got that , but if you can come out with all those qualities and still be regarded as mister nice guy erm and at the moment he comes across as mister nice guy . |
| 9 | Humanity 's birth probably lies preserved somewhere in those beds , but last October the government of Ethiopia announced a total ban on all foreign expeditions ( New Scientist , 2 December 1982 , p 552 ) . |
| 10 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 11 | somewhere , and that this probably gets pulled about |
| 12 | " And probably get killed for wounding an Owsla officer , if you ever do get back ? |
| 13 | Probably get arrested in about a week 's time . |
| 14 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 15 | It 's probably getting married . |
| 16 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
| 17 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
| 18 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 19 | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager 's job was third prize . |
| 20 | Zbo would probably have dated them 1919 , when Modigliani 's prices were beginning to rise . |
| 21 | ( ii ) The reader will probably have recognised N as having properties usually ascribed to the set of positive integers and I as being the principle of mathematical induction . |
| 22 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 23 | But the harder they pressed her , the more confused she would probably have become . |
| 24 | Other societies would probably have followed Abbey National with stock market flotations in the early 1990s but for the hostility of the Building Societies Commission and the housing market recession . |
| 25 | ‘ I wished you were — but they 'd probably have killed you . ’ |
| 26 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 27 | All three directors would probably have liked ICI to narrow its broad span of interests to just two : a bulk commodities business and a value-added specialties business . |
| 28 | I would probably have liked to replace my boots and ski-jacket , but I still had n't much personal money . |
| 29 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
| 30 | The king would probably have liked to attract liberals on his own terms but all attempts at an amnesty after 1816 came to nothing . |