Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 2 | Support Alan on Saturday and contact him with details those items you would like auctioned at the next opportunity in December . |
| 3 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 4 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 5 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 6 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 7 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 9 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |
| 10 | This time d'Aubigny waited and would have done till the Second Coming . |
| 11 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 12 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 13 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 14 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 15 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 16 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 17 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 18 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 19 | You will have noticed in the last case that Duchy Hotels owned another , smaller hotel as well as the Dee Hall . |
| 20 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 21 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 22 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 23 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 24 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 25 | Today , we 're concentrating on the videos you might have bought in the last 12 months . |
| 26 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 27 | The stubby spires here which surmount the western towers are not ancient , but they replace the originals in the earlier style and are the type which Durham would have had in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 28 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 29 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 30 | Without John I doubt is any of us would have got past the first post . |