Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 2 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 3 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 4 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 5 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 6 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 7 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 8 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 9 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 10 | Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth . |
| 11 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 12 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 13 | Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent . |
| 14 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 15 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 16 | If I 'd found out where you went I 'd have caught you at it . ’ |
| 17 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 18 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 19 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 20 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 21 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 22 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 23 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 24 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 25 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 27 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 28 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 29 | The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line ! |
| 30 | Fagin , with his sharp , suspicious eyes , would have noticed something at once . |