Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus looks great , could 've done more with the aliens |
| 2 | Neither will you feel left out of the night life , because , again , the ship 's crew have special instructions to make sure that people travelling alone are always included in every activity . |
| 3 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 4 | It is not hard to see how they may become bound up in the sexuality of the growing child . |
| 5 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 6 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 7 | Thus any black hole of one solar mass would not have had time to evaporate since the origin of the Universe ; however , very small black holes could have formed early in the life of the Universe and subsequently evaporated . |
| 8 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 9 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 10 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 11 | They would have clattered upstairs along the gallery and woken both me and Dame Martha . ’ |
| 12 | As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage . |
| 13 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 14 | Nor is there any reason to assume that the system would have adjusted smoothly to the onset of overaccumulation had the oil crisis not occurred . |
| 15 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 16 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 17 | Sir John burped noisily , rolled on one side and , if Athelstan had not been there , would have fallen completely off the bed . |
| 18 | In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity . |
| 19 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 20 | I shall have travelled away in the flesh from that wretched court — light years away by then , light decades . |
| 21 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 22 | Master-in-charge , Austin Jessop , was quick to stress the excellence of the Newington side and to suggest that they would almost certainly have won either at the end of the tour or into a domestic season . |
| 23 | Team Costa Rica could not have won regardless of the parachuting , having lost one team member to injury on the penultimate day . |
| 24 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 25 | They must have added considerably to the wealth of the See of Canterbury . |
| 26 | A map of the town as it was at the beginning of this century , plus one as it is today , would have added considerably to the understanding of a reader not familiar with the town . |
| 27 | Journal-to-journal co-citation analysis would not have added much to the journal list analysis described in Chapter 3 , because of the small number of journals involved , and the ease of identifying core journals by simple counts . |
| 28 | Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’ |
| 29 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 30 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |