Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | that bloody dog last night I could 've wrung his neck , mm I could 've , he just did n't damn well stop |
| 2 | Oh Trevor was quite good he di he d he would 've got his big pay rise today an did n't push it too much I do n't think perhaps it 's Nick though |
| 3 | He was about to join his companions on the balcony when someone whom he could not see touched his arm and told him he was needed somewhere else . |
| 4 | A shadow she could not interpret crossed his face , as he said , ‘ Sometimes people do n't know what they want — until they 've lost it . ’ |
| 5 | It is expected , however , that the Irishman will make known his views at a later date . |
| 6 | It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago . |
| 7 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 8 | But by expressing his views in this way , Scott must have given his clients a clear indication of the type of building he wanted to build . |
| 9 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 10 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 11 | Jotan , as Jehana 's father , must have given his consent — and thus probably Jehan . |
| 12 | d , If it had been the turn of Glasgow to preside and there had been an equality of votes , the Glasgow delegate would no doubt have given his casting vote to Kirkman Finlay and he es would have been elected . |
| 13 | I 'd have given his place to Fat Frank , but if he 's off to , then maybe Whelan or Forrester could get the starting nod . |
| 14 | Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ? |
| 15 | Security Minister Sir John Wheeler , who has inherited responsibility for this cauldron of hatred , must have revised his initial appraisal that the IRA ‘ has already been defeated ’ . |
| 16 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 17 | Already his men would have heard his words and taken the appropriate action . |
| 18 | What the right hon. Gentleman might also have fastened his mind upon is the fact that reported job vacancies are rising , that the number of people placed in jobs is rising and that there are 500,000 more people in work than in 1979 . |
| 19 | If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way . |
| 20 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 21 | ‘ So if Nigel had wanted to , he could have turfed his father out of his own houses . ’ |
| 22 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 23 | But Catherine must have guessed his plan . |
| 24 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 25 | Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a person under the age of 18 should not have joined his unit in the Gulf ? |
| 26 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 27 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 28 | If he was less of a man , Tony Parsons might never have outgrown his role as enfant terrible in NME 's punk era . |
| 29 | That would have broken his oath never to use violence , Mr Waite said in an interview to be shown tonight on American television . |
| 30 | For this surely would have broken his heart — he loved us so much . |