Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 2 | I 'm glad I did n't — it would only have shown us in a very discreditable light . |
| 3 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 4 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 5 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 6 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | If Maurin had told them she had gone home , the woman 's wagging tongue might already have put her in danger . |
| 10 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 11 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 12 | If firm 2 reneges on punishment , then in the following period firm 1 must punish firm 2 for not having punished it in the previous period , and so on . |
| 13 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 14 | Yet , said Mr. Watkinson , Lord Bridge can hardly have had it in mind that the private law right which he plainly regarded as coming into existence when the duty laid down in section 65(2) arose could give rise to a public law duty as to the manner in which the private law right was to be satisfied . |
| 15 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 16 | A structured visit from the attached inspector , talking things through as a ‘ critical friend ’ with the head or others , possibly having visited them in their classrooms first , can focus attention on all parts of the School Development Plan and suggest changes of emphasis and ways round emergent problems . |
| 17 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 18 | You 'll probably have noticed it in Iberia 's real time , computerised sales and reservations system , and in our impeccable service . |
| 19 | If she is a regular churchgoer her previous vicar , minister , priest or rabbi will probably have put her in touch with a place of worship near to your home , and whether you are churchgoers or not you should make every effort to enable her to remain active in church life and enjoy all the organisations connected with it , in which she will make friends . |
| 20 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 21 | It comes from Rostand 's Chantecler , a play which Eliot recalled in 1919 , probably having seen it in Paris where it had been a hit in the winter of 1910 . |
| 22 | Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might . |
| 23 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 25 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 26 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 27 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 28 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 29 | The Jacobite sympathies of the family might well have prejudiced them in the eyes of the early Georges , but George III , especially after falling out with Coutts , had an affectionate and very special relationship with Drummonds . |
| 30 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |