Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | I can bring along the statements of these people who 've said all sorts of things , you can you know put down at once but they 're not put down . |
| 3 | Erm and you do feel shut in at nights when you 're on your own . |
| 4 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 5 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 6 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 7 | I ca n't be sure , because if lack of oxygen was affecting me , I would have blacked out at lot sooner , and I remember the whole episode ’ . |
| 8 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 9 | So if we 'd have carried on at that |
| 10 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 11 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 12 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 13 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 14 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 15 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 16 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 17 | What I , what I 'd like to do is , we can say that we 're we can make er a profit or a loss and we can give the figure , so this might have come out at seven thousand two hundred whatever . |
| 18 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 19 | Such failures are not only reflected on the score board — Scotland could well have turned round at 16–10 — but also in the morale of the side . |
| 20 | Incensed , Maria flung up her head , choking on rage , and but for her fear of any physical contact between them , she might have lashed out at him . |
| 21 | It amazed her , as she stared down at her right hand , that , while loving Naylor with every part of her being , she could have lashed out at him so violently . |
| 22 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 23 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 25 | During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded . |
| 26 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |
| 27 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 28 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 29 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 30 | Ipswich must have gone in at half-time thinking ‘ this IS Christmas ’ . |