Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She believed Spittals would somehow have treated a male officer differently — spoken less patronisingly , with more respect . |
| 2 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 3 | The two human parcels screwed up on the floor could have fared a whole lot worse . |
| 4 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 5 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 7 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 8 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 9 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 10 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 11 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 12 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 13 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 14 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 15 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |
| 16 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 17 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 18 | And we only wanted the melted chocolate , we could have had a sticky finger then could n't we ? |
| 19 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 20 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 21 | ‘ Harriet must have had a real skinful yesterday . |
| 22 | She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way . |
| 23 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 24 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 25 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 27 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 28 | While I accept that the incident took place in the ‘ heat of the moment ’ , a swift apology from Mr. Stewart would have defused a tense situation instead of a letter expressing ‘ regret ’ belatedly sent to TVNZ . |
| 29 | Short lengths of other internal streets have been identified but it is clear that , even though they intersect most often at right angles , there was no regular gridded system One strange omission is the absence of a street running down the west side of the supposed forum , which would have linked a known street further north with that running between the two military compounds . |
| 30 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |