Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 2 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Gould , however , was probably the last person Lear should have expected to engage in a chatty , long correspondence . |
| 4 | It was the sort of notice that one might have expected to read on a bus going from New York to Philadelphia . |
| 5 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 6 | Yeah Rob yeah Rob you know you should have done taken like a hair out of your head , placed it in there before you and pulled it out . |
| 7 | Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking . |
| 8 | Pemberton 's defiance should have helped United to a point , which was the least they deserved . |
| 9 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 10 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 11 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 12 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 13 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 14 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 15 | His head lowered to find her lips , while any thought of resistance she might have had melted like an ice-block in boiling water . |
| 16 | X.desktop had the edge over VUE because of its availability under VMS , aside from any uncomfortable feelings DEC might have had opting for a product from one of its biggest competitors . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 18 | Thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague could then have become attached to a festival already in existence . |
| 19 | I would never have risked travelling with a family in such a car . |
| 20 | Flaubert may have tried to live in an ivory tower |
| 21 | It would have meant living in a shoe box in Clapham Junction or something similar . |
| 22 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 23 | Without proportional representation Belgium would have ceased to exist as a state . |
| 24 | Er the kitchen was n't very big but it was good enough , and then the bedrooms upstairs , I certainly would n't have liked to live in a downstairs flat . |
| 25 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 26 | I would n't use a bulletproof , well in certain circumstances I might , but I 'm not trained to carry a firearm so I would n't use a I , hopefully , I wo n't get selected to go into a house where I need to wear a bulletproof uniform . |