Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 2 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 3 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 4 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 5 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |
| 6 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 7 | By the end of the interview she will have plaited it into a handy living-room rug , but for now Susanna wants to talk about her NME photo session . |
| 8 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 10 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 11 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 12 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 13 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 14 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 15 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 16 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 18 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 19 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 20 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 21 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 22 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 23 | Would she have told it in a different way ? |
| 24 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 25 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 26 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 27 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 28 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 29 | And in a way this answer , like the first , was astonishingly appropriate , brandishing a secret truth and a paradox before a man who would have appreciated it to the full , but could not be let into the secret . |
| 30 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |