Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
2 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
3 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
4 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
5 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
6 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
7 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
8 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
9 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
10 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
11 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
12 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |