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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They would have clattered upstairs along the gallery and woken both me and Dame Martha . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sir John burped noisily , rolled on one side and , if Athelstan had not been there , would have fallen completely off the bed . |
| 7 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 8 | I shall have travelled away in the flesh from that wretched court — light years away by then , light decades . |
| 9 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Team Costa Rica could not have won regardless of the parachuting , having lost one team member to injury on the penultimate day . |
| 12 | They must have added considerably to the wealth of the See of Canterbury . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’ |
| 16 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 17 | If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid . |
| 18 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 19 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 20 | Some women would have come downstairs with the poker at the ready . ’ |
| 21 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili . |
| 23 | I would have moved slightly to the right , I w I was the first objective while you 're looking is to get out of the door . |
| 24 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 25 | Even this only becomes valuable when you are below 1000 feet , by which time , of course , you will have moved closer to the gliding site or nearer to a suitable field if you are flying across country . |
| 26 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 27 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 28 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 29 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 30 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |