Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first .
2 Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth .
3 Coleridge 's cottage as it may have appeared early in the nineteenth century .
4 I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction .
5 She should never have gone there in the first place .
6 And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’
7 The Blues should have equalised midway through the second half when Gorman , bursting down the right , played a lovely ball into Haylock 's path but the big striker , however , lost control with the goal at his mercy .
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