Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |
| 2 | Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a person under the age of 18 should not have joined his unit in the Gulf ? |
| 3 | ‘ On the other hand , it seems quite possible that someone could have joined your husband in the cab , in the course of the journey — perhaps with your husband 's consent . |
| 4 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 5 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 6 | In so doing , they will have added their mite to the expansion of one of Europe 's most unusual and successful financial groups . |
| 7 | And while Black Dwarf staff might have protested their separateness from the two underground papers , readers in London , and students and hippies elsewhere , would not . |
| 8 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 9 | President Gorbachev 's record as fairy godmother to the cause of democratic revolution , first in Beijing and now in East Berlin , may have caught our fancy in the West , but to some in Moscow he must seem more of a wicked stepmother , turning the achievements of Socialism to dust wherever he goes . |
| 10 | When he slipped in that muck he could have cracked his head against the side of the lift shaft ! |
| 11 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 12 | If so , such expedients failed , for Ælfgifu was soon back in England supporting her son , and he may well have owed his popularity in the midlands partly to her Mercian kindred . |
| 13 | You must have noticed our grass at the front on your way in then . |
| 14 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 15 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 16 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |
| 17 | Even getting it all set up to get you this far may have taxed your fortune to the limit already and there 's still a long way to go . |
| 18 | With victory over the Racers , Cleveland Bombers would have made their way to the final ahead of the Scottish team . |
| 19 | ‘ She must have made her way to the East End to get to a phone box , ’ came the voice of Control . |
| 20 | The book is highly priced despite Bass 's sponsorship ( cash which must have made its way into the pockets of publisher and author ) . |
| 21 | I am sure O'Grady would have made his mark on the Centre Court of Wimbledon . |
| 22 | The issue is whether or not the defendant 's lawyer should have told his client about the state of the title and the risks arising therefrom and I did n't have any difficulty in coming to the conclusion on that matter without the aid of expert evidence and erm the judge then goes on to deal with the authorities . |
| 23 | By now Dot would have had her dab with the damp corner of a towel at the sink on the landing . |
| 24 | In Asia , such ‘ cultigens ’ include the coconut , which may have had its origin on the Great Barrier Reef , and the mango , the talipot palm , Corypha umbraculifera , its leaves used as writing paper , and the betel nut with narcotic fruits . |
| 25 | His fervently expressed hope in the coming of the Age of the Holy Spirit may have had its origin in the Jewish concept of the Messianic Age , for like the latter it was regarded by him as lying essentially within history and not beyond it , being indeed the climax of history . |
| 26 | This capacity to enjoy beauty could have had its origin in the elaborate effects of association between , to quote just one possibility , the peace and beauty of a woodland retreat , and the relief to be felt in being there after suffering , for example , the pain of a lost battle . |
| 27 | I think I must have had my weight to the front of the bike , you know , coming up on the braking . |
| 28 | They must have played their part in the overthrow of Thomas of Lancaster and the Lords Ordainers at the battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March . |
| 29 | It would seem that much of this period is viewed by Gedge as an unsettled , painful time and in retrospect this may have affected his view of the material . |
| 30 | His career should have reached its climax in the great Franco-Scottish chateaux of Fonthill ( 1849 ) for the Duke of Westminster and Buchanan ( 1851–53 ) for the Duke of Montrose , but the first was built only in a much reduced and quite different form while Buchanan suffered from the late substitution of plate glass for the mullioned windows which were an indispensable element of his style . |