Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words the protest would need to involve activity which , it could be fairly held , the protesters should have known was against the law . |
| 2 | But his hand was up , silencing me and what he must have guessed were to be my thanks . |
| 3 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 4 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 5 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 6 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'd hate to have been in |
| 8 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'd have hated being in one of those old people 's flats , and they 're miles from the centre . |
| 10 | He 'd have enjoyed being on this trip with us today , you know . ’ |
| 11 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 12 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 13 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 14 | This however would appear to have been in combat with Bf110s , rather than Bf109s . |
| 15 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 16 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 17 | The last thing I would have wanted was for you to become emotionally involved with me . ’ |
| 18 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the rough tone , irregular rhythms and ‘ dirty ’ intonation that most blues singers would have used are for the most part conspicuously absent in Elvis 's performance ; his tone is full , rich and well produced , his intonation is precise , stable and ‘ correct ’ , the notes are sustained and held right through , and the phrasing is legato . |
| 20 | Because I think one of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in history at professional level is the much greater interest in things that older historian would have thought was outside their province . |
| 21 | What I will need to do is to now take this information away with me and put together some recommendations er which will help solve this concern for you . |
| 22 | The only running cost you will have to pay is for petrol . |
| 23 | What will tend to happen is for example , erm , in my section to deal with public courses , I would have information about the venues that I 'm going to use this year , I would have information about the mailing lists I 'm going to use , and information about the mailing lists of my office I 'm going to use , I would have prospects that I 'm going to call , you know , it 's all stuff that I would tend to plan out on a pad of paper and then insert into the particular data section , and refer to as I need to . |
| 24 | Self-evaluation from which review and audit can begin has been at the heart of a long-standing national project , Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 25 | Where we can hope to gain is on the publicity front . |