Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 2 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 4 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 5 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 6 | I do n't mean put down like bloody tramlines . |
| 7 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 8 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 9 | I 'm not pushy enough to dig out real controversies , and I ca n't get worked up about red-hot issues . |
| 10 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |