Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 2 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 3 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 4 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 5 | Would he like to come back on a quieter ‘ induction day ’ ? |
| 6 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 8 | Successful inmates can hope to move back to a lower category C security , or even a Category D open prison . |
| 9 | This victory may set Stretch up with a world-title elimination fight with Britain 's other leading light middleweight , Chris Pyatt . |
| 10 | Have you ever thought what sort of a picture you 'll make coming up before a prospective employer ? |
| 11 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 12 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 13 | Why should you have to go round with a frozen face because a child has kicked the cat ? |
| 14 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 15 | so you know the , these one thing you 'll have to work out in a logical side of revelation |
| 16 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 17 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 18 | He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph . |
| 19 | American banks will have to write down by a further 10–20% their medium- and long-term loans to Brazil and Argentina , increasing pressure on the second-quarter earnings of some of the big banks . |
| 20 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
| 21 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 22 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 23 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 24 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 25 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 26 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 27 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 28 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 29 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no way we would have got in under a Labour government . ’ |