Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was I you , I 'd stay tucked up in bed . |
| 2 | A man can feel left out during pregnancy . |
| 3 | We know that a nation 's sense of its own identity can become bound up with material objects , the identity of the British with the Crown Jewels , that of the Greeks with the Elgin Marbles , that of the people of Hungary with the Crown of Stephen . |
| 4 | Ambassador is happy to travel and does not become upset away from home . |
| 5 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 6 | Yes , yes , it 's Belgium , and you you may have heard again during sporting events , football matches , or or whatever it is . |
| 7 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 8 | This technique was compatible with a more open-ended view of natural relationships , although most naturalists were as yet unwilling to concede that life could have developed solely in response to adaptive pressures . |
| 9 | We could have lolled peaceably at home tonight , watching All That Heaven Allows on BBC2 . |
| 10 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 11 | Old Henryk would n't have fallen apart in front of Farnham 's Witchfinders , Annie . |
| 12 | There is no doubt but that , if Mrs. Steed 's signature had been forged or if the non est factum plea had been made good , the case would have fallen squarely within paragraph ( g ) . |
| 13 | If they had been on an island , in a one-to-one situation , they would have fallen deeply in love , said Anspach . |
| 14 | The monastery may have been sacked by Vikings or it may have fallen down through neglect , but either way it needed reviving . |
| 15 | The Lane must have fallen out of use in this stretch within living memory . |
| 16 | It is normal in a sale and purchase agreement to exclude liability for representations made in pre-contractual negotiations , but this is unlikely to be acceptable in the investment agreement as investors will have relied heavily on input from management before agreeing to proceed . |
| 17 | Their forebears may well have relied heavily upon scurvy grass ( Cochlearia officinalis ) in some areas referred to as , ‘ a sailor ’ or ‘ mariner ’ , and in other areas called , ‘ the thing for scurvy ’ , or more explicitly , possessing antiscorbutic properties . |
| 18 | I ca n't be sure , because if lack of oxygen was affecting me , I would have blacked out at lot sooner , and I remember the whole episode ’ . |
| 19 | I could have wound up in Wiesbaden for all I knew . |
| 20 | ‘ They would n't have mixed well with booze , ’ said Pearce . |
| 21 | However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 23 | Another issue of considerable importance is the question of additionality : what proportion of companies have located on , or remained within , the zones as a result of designation , and what proportion would have located there without designation ? |
| 24 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 25 | If he could have looked ahead through time at his counterpart in the late 1980s , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ? |
| 26 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 27 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 28 | While they might have looked out of place next to the modern heavy metal , they are vying for a lucrative market . |
| 29 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 30 | The results did not seem to influence subsequent clinical management of these patients in any way that would have differed appreciably from management without this information . |