Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 3 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 4 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 5 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 6 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 7 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 8 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 9 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 10 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 11 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 12 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 13 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 14 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 15 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 16 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 18 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 19 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She would never have guessed it from the wildly anachronistic costumes . |
| 22 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |
| 23 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 24 | Yet Badcox Lane must have regarded her as a member of their congregation in the widest sense , at least in spirit ; when she died , aged 79 , and was buried at Catherine Hill on 18 May 1826 , the chapel entered the fact in its register . |
| 25 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 26 | He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform . |
| 27 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 28 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 29 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 30 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |