Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 2 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 3 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 5 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 6 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 7 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 8 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 9 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 10 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 11 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 13 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 14 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 15 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 16 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 17 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 18 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 19 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 20 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 21 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 22 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 23 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |
| 24 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 25 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 26 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 27 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 28 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 29 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |