Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 3 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 4 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 5 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 6 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 7 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 8 | Lie is a nasty word and those in politics ten who use it tend to get hit by it on the rebound . |
| 9 | This city was naturally of great strategic importance : much of the communication between Francia and the eastern Mediterranean seems to have passed through it in the sixth century . |
| 10 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |