Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I will have explained er er I certainly would 've explained on the phone that er part of the contract requires them to give us a list of prospective advertisers . |
| 2 | It would remain pegged to the deutschmark at a new rate of DM1.00=13 dinars . |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 4 | He could 've come in the shop and bought them , yeah . |
| 5 | Erm , so , if you really want to erm , make sure there 's no deadwood , what you would do is do a range format reset of the range you want to erase first of all . |
| 6 | ‘ Mind you , Cal will 've phoned from the villa to find out her results . |
| 7 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 8 | No , I thought it might 've said at the back and Dinosaur |
| 9 | That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken . |
| 10 | They may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them , and gain a sense of achievement and control by isolating parts and dealing with them thoroughly . |
| 11 | Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off . |
| 12 | If we suppose that Nietzsche did feel committed to the plan 's extra-tragic Greek aspects ( ethics , politics and the rest ) , we must make that supposition without much in the way of supporting evidence . |
| 13 | We do n't feel overwhelmed by the resemblance , as we are by biological adaptations — the products of cumulative selection . |
| 14 | Sometimes the customer can feel overwhelmed by the choice ! |
| 15 | You may feel pushed to the side by your baby , but the experience will bring a new maturity . |
| 16 | She liked the taste of his mouth , the feel of his tongue caressing hers , but she did not feel threatened by the thought that she might be expected to ‘ go all the way ’ like some poor teenager on a heavy date . |
| 17 | But why does it suddenly feel threatened by the contact of its peaceful owner ? |
| 18 | A further point is that departmental officials ( and client groups ) might feel threatened by the policy implications of performance measurement , as might ‘ a Cabinet of ministers committed to a party programme and to ways of winning the next general election ’ ( Lee , 1984 , p. 5 ) . |
| 19 | This was done by cross-tabulating the answer to the question : ‘ To what extent did you personally feel threatened by the review ? ’ against all the other items in the questionnaire . |
| 20 | Returning nurses can feel threatened by the mention of ‘ research based care ’ or ‘ experiential learning ’ . |
| 21 | The small investor might well feel cheated by the City because it has failed to provide the services necessary to buy and sell shares . |
| 22 | ‘ You did n't feel watched on the way here ? ’ he asked , trying to make it sound light-hearted . |
| 23 | Some readers will feel frustrated by the lack of detailed discussion of current issues such as the implications of care management for community teams for people with learning difficulties or the practicalities of disinvesting in day services and investing in supported employment . |
| 24 | I doubt whether any reader of Relevance will feel patronised by the reformulation in [ 13 ] . |
| 25 | She would never grow used to the way he hated her . |
| 26 | These women do not feel called to the seclusion of their sisters inside the enclosure , who never leave their convent , but feel called to serve them and act as essential intermediaries between the cloistered nuns and the world . |
| 27 | Her detractors , of whom there are many , gave warning of the dangers involved in bringing her back , and will feel vindicated by the rebuff Mr Major has suffered . |
| 28 | ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’ |
| 29 | Even in contemporary Western democracies , a government so powerfully entrenched that it may not feel troubled by the agitation of its enemies , detractors or of its powerless minorities , may court the danger of violent reaction . |
| 30 | That filmmakers did n't feel hamstrung by the need to defer to the MOI reflects their own desire to ‘ do their bit ’ . |