Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although a verbal apology would probably fit the bill , the offender may feel constrained to act the fool he expects to be accused of being . |
| 2 | Julian did not feel called to reform the church or to take part in public life : she remained a loyal daughter of Mother Church and stayed in seclusion for the rest of her life . |
| 3 | When he gets his way in a new ‘ voluntary agreement ’ ( which is likely once the industry gets over its panic on finding a Minister for Health rather than a Minister for Tobacco in the DoH ) he may feel bound to reject the ban . |
| 4 | But the Labour Party dislikes this prospect , and avoided it in 1967 because of the fear that an elected House might feel entitled to challenge the supremacy of the Commons . |
| 5 | I say , I 'll I 've got to walk the end of the street , get a bus . |
| 6 | When someone is regularly and edifyingly prophesying with fruitful results , then it may be he will become known to have the ministry of a prophet . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , in the one movement , the concluding ‘ In te Domine ’ , for which Charpentier employs , his accustomed time-signature for very fast movements , and where Christie could have justified doubling the speed , he adopts a more leisurely minim=g3 . |
| 8 | It may well be that the jury took the view that at the outset of the relationship with each businessman the appellant may genuinely have intended to do the work but subsequently failed to do so . |
| 9 | It is clear that , whether they succeeded or not , both the Criminal Law Revision Committee and the draftsman must have intended to give the word one meaning , which would be the same in the Act as in the committee 's report . |
| 10 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 11 | The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] . |
| 12 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon 's feet . |
| 13 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 14 | I wish I had his poise ; he ca n't have expected to see the fräulein , but has n't turned a hair . |
| 15 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 16 | Of course , it is purely coincidental that to help other mothers and brides-to-be , we also consulted Harry Dodson , he of The Victorian Kitchen Garden fame , to find out which flowers a Victorian country bride would have picked to decorate the church and make her bouquet . |
| 17 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 18 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 19 | It is clear that this " mood " could only have come to dominate the study of English by deflecting the major challenges to its status as a " real discipline " . |
| 20 | It may not be cheap , but it offers the best of diesel driving for those , perhaps , who might not have considered making the switch before . |
| 21 | A year ago , he might even have considered signing the pledge and going to bed at six . |
| 22 | Had he been a man of no imagination and of totally strict principles , Joe would never have considered steaming the letter open . |
| 23 | The basis of the argument was that since , at the date of the Shops Act 1950 , the only proceedings which the local authority could then have instituted to enforce the law against Sunday trading were criminal proceedings , section 71(1) should be read as limited to such proceedings . |
| 24 | Designed as an ‘ everyman 's ’ aeroplane , the venture might have succeeded had the market economy at the time been more buoyant . |
| 25 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 26 | If Cadwallon believed himself to be descended from a Votadini chieftain , he may well have wished to support the Votadini in their continuing war with the northern Angles . |
| 27 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 28 | Ceolwulf may genuinely have wished to renounce the world . |
| 29 | An early lunch and a failure to return to the office afterwards was not how Derek would have wished to start the week at Fithyan & co . |
| 30 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |