Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 2 | Five frilly nightdresses straight from mail-order , their labels still attached — I 'd 've nicked a couple only I did n't know what disease they might be carrying . |
| 3 | If I could 've chosen I would 've got a girl more sophisticated , talk awhile , have a few drinks then screw . |
| 4 | And I think that would have been the the classic situation where we would We 've got a procedure now for dealing with it and I think this covers all and I unless somebody wants to further debate the matter I 'll er I will propose that we adopt these the financial regulations for the er Tyneside Film Theatre Limited . |
| 5 | he says I see you 've got a towel up there |
| 6 | And you 'll see we 've got an application up for Rio tonight . |
| 7 | The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be . |
| 8 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 9 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 10 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 11 | Coward or not , I could have plunged a dagger straight into his black treacherous heart . |
| 12 | ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules . |
| 13 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 15 | They were the stuff of after-dinner conversation when , mellowed by brandy and candlelight , people confessed to fascinations they would n't have broached an hour earlier . |
| 16 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 17 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 18 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 19 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 21 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 22 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 23 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 24 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 25 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 26 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 27 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
| 28 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 29 | Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise . |
| 30 | I think the one you show may have risen a bit too much … |