Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because the other thing is that although erm you might have all these sort of high flying ideas about what you wan na do and you do n't actually feel tied down by a relationship , actually you do live your life thinking well ca n't really do that because I wan na be with him . |
| 2 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 3 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 4 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 5 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 6 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 7 | In retrospect , Labour 's leadership team miscalculated : they could have wrung more from a week when the party was so eagerly compliant . |
| 8 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 9 | His dark grey suit would have sat well on a clerk in a City bank . |
| 10 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 11 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 12 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 13 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 14 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 15 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 16 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 17 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 18 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 19 | ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend . |
| 20 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 21 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 22 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 23 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 24 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 25 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 26 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 27 | Rumours are circulating among the ‘ Highgrove Set ’ — the circle of Gloucestershire landowners who mix with the royals — that Charles and Camilla may have met briefly at a hunt a week ago . |
| 28 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 29 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 30 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |