Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | If , as we have suggested , those closest to the person who has died have had the opportunity to discuss what should happen , maybe with the person himself , and their wishes are known , then the decision has already been made and it is a united one . |
| 3 | Captain Ieuan Evans acknowledged : ‘ The level of enthusiasm our victory has caused has taken the boys a bit by surprise but , as Bob said , it 's gratifying to see how the boys have responded . ’ |
| 4 | The reduction in costs which this has achieved has enabled the business to perform most satisfactorily in what has been a very difficult year in all its major markets . |
| 5 | And I 'm not sorry that I did that because erm I would n't like I would n't have like to think that er anything I 'd done had escalated the situation you know . |
| 6 | Korg seem to have done the impossible and produced a totally digital processor with some absolutely authentic guitar sounds . |
| 7 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 8 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 9 | He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome . |
| 10 | In operational planning , the Declaration of Common Purpose , which Macmillan would have preferred to have called the Declaration of Interdependence , led to even closer relations between the British and American air forces . |
| 11 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 12 | It was held that there had been no negligence , but on grounds of public policy the court would not award compensation where the plaintiff would have had to have broken the law . |
| 13 | " He 'd have had to have opened the door and then left it open when he reset the alarms . |
| 14 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 15 | Many of us would have liked to have seen the savings that were made , recycling of the passenger transport area . |
| 16 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 17 | He 'd , I think he would have liked to have gone the four hour trip over I did n't think you 'd like that . |
| 18 | She would have liked to have made the truth plain — that the feeling , though not one to be taken too seriously , was mutual . |
| 19 | You would have liked to have extended the business a little m more then , would you ? |
| 20 | Sandys would have liked to have unified the policy direction and command of the three Services as part of his Reformation . |
| 21 | But I would have liked to have got the napkins to match , but she said they do n't come in with the napkins . |
| 22 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 23 | I would have liked to have shown the audience last night the footage that I did in Panama . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 25 | Similarly in Reg. v. Wells Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Deakin [ 1980 ] A.C. 479 , a case concerned with the law of criminal libel , both Lord Diplock and Lord Keith of Kinkel were concerned that the result to which they felt constrained to come entailed the risk of a failure to comply with our international obligations under article 10 . |
| 26 | Those few studies of cinema audiences that do exist have employed the methods of mass sociology and market research , which can not fully capture the individual , subjective experience of filmgoing , since they miss out idiosyncratic detail and the personal dreamworld . |
| 27 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 28 | Roger Seelig , however , appears to have recovered having joined the board of engineering firm Norman Hay on Monday . |
| 29 | But there is a sense in much of the images that , notwithstanding the smallness of the final print the intimacy of impact which she wishes to share has escaped the frame of the viewfinder . |
| 30 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |