Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory may have laughed at Chilperic 's attempts at apeing the culture of the Roman past , and despised him for them , but circuses were integral to the political culture of the later Roman Empire , and its Byzantine successor : the hippodrome was central to the court ritual of Constantinople . |
| 2 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 3 | In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it anyone I know ? ’ she asked , wishing that David would stop staring at her . |
| 5 | With Fitzroy Simpson off to Manchester City and a spate of injuries , Glenn Hoddle will have to make at least three changes . |
| 6 | In a happier moment , Maria might have laughed at the idea of Florian troubling to rescue anyone from anything . |
| 7 | Any relief Widnes might have felt at the non-appearance of the injured Meninga after half-time evaporated when Myler departed with a head wound a minute after the restart . |
| 8 | She looked at him as Eve must have looked at Adam . |
| 9 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 10 | Alice saw that Roberta would have laughed at this , had Faye 's mood permitted it . |
| 11 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 12 | Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room . |
| 13 | They even succumb , in the end , to the charms of a girl , which Grahame would have winced at . |
| 14 | In Eternity , like the madman in the story who got rid of his devils when they were driven out of him and into the swine , Russia will sit healed at the feet of Jesus . |
| 15 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 16 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 17 | Bournemouth must have felt at home on a pitch which resembled a beach after the tide had receded . |
| 18 | Faye would have taken at least half an hour . ’ |
| 19 | Looking at the primitive clubs and golf balls which Morris would have had at his disposal in those days , it was engaging to speculate on how , with this equipment , he would have handled Portrush in an awkward easterly wind . |
| 20 | Coventry , however , claim the queues were caused by late-arriving supporters , and that there is no way Clarkson can have arrived at 2.15 and not have been in the ground by 3.10 . |
| 21 | Doddie Weir may have to impress at training today to force his way in among the forwards , who held a lineout session with assistant coach John Jeffrey at Happy Valley last night . |
| 22 | Its not the contract/wages necessarily because I hope that Batty would have stayed at Leeds . |
| 23 | As I said , I was sure Elsie would have started at the top . |
| 24 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 25 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 26 | I fancy even Fouché might have baulked at half-a-dozen , including three officers in the Grand Army . |
| 27 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 28 | Lazarus Cohen would have laughed at that ; Butler simply vented his spleen ‘ psalmically ’ , whose chorus was , starkly , ‘ O God ! |
| 29 | Claudia would have shrivelled at the note in Roman 's voice , but Dana only laughed and put her hand on his arm . |
| 30 | The LEA will need to look at other routes as well . |