Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 2 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 3 | They must 've got the idea from that , called Dave Tanner and got him to set you up … |
| 4 | What , would you say that would 've helped the growth of the economy even more ? |
| 5 | Although nationwide strikes diminished in 1976–7 , such disputes as did occur caused the maximum of attention , most of it highly unfavourable in tone . |
| 6 | He should haev held the children at the scene and called the police . |
| 7 | Who do you think introduced the virus into your computer ? |
| 8 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 9 | He must have sensed the connection in his bones , for Gerard , the man of the people and one of the Chartist delegates , turns out to be a descendant of the last Abbot of Mamey , and the rightful heir to Mowbray Castle , a claim that defies all legal and moral description . |
| 10 | For his distraught family , only hanging would have avenged the death of the father of four . |
| 11 | This is reflected in the presence of possible public and official buildings forming an obvious urban focus , the recognition of several wealthy suburban villas and possible intra-mural houses , whose owners could have formed the core of the local council , and the provision of an extensive internal street network and of urban-core defences , all coupled with the obvious agricultural and industrial potential of its hinterland . |
| 12 | That puts me in mind of Montesquieu ’ — ; the French philosopher and belle-lettrist whose Persian Letters may have formed the inspiration for Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World : both employed the satirical device of having their society scrutinised by visitors from a far-off land . |
| 13 | In this way the Church , as in many other parts of the western empire , would have formed the bridge by which a moderately civilized Romano-British community was maintained and eventually transformed into an English one . |
| 14 | Given that this same five-part texture is used for all the dances of this ballet , it seems reasonable to conclude that a string band must have formed the basis of the instrumental ensemble . |
| 15 | If this was the case , then its great central mountain massif would have formed the end of India 's Western Ghats . |
| 16 | Produced properly , argues La Mar , it could have formed the sort of entry into the mainstream that The Comic Strip Presents … first gave to alternative comedy . |
| 17 | The cereals grown would have formed the staple of the diet , with wheat , barley , oats and rye all being represented in the archaeological and historical records . |
| 18 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |
| 19 | Right now she 'd have given the nightclub to anyone who could restore calm to a pulse which had gone completely haywire and a brain in danger of short-circuiting . |
| 20 | Perhaps — but the years in Peru will hopefully have given the lie to that one . |
| 21 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 22 | When royal forefathers were generically called Ptolemy , as was the dynastic custom , knowledge of family pedigree could have given the edge in court intrigue . |
| 23 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 24 | ‘ But when could Mr Pipkin have given the poison to Sir Thomas ? ’ asked Auguste reasonably . |
| 25 | The spectacle of a White-dominated state defying Afro-Asian opinion may have given the impulse to the decision to fly to Vietnam . |
| 26 | In distinguishing between ( a ) and ( b ) I may have given the impression of wishing to maintain a strict distinction between space and time as against the physical space-time . |
| 27 | SIR — Jean Howard ( letter , April 8 ) may have given the impression to your readers that her knowledge of Ultra material ‘ never released to the public ’ proves her theory about the military insignificance of Tito and the Partisans . |
| 28 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 29 | The brutes must have ripped the coif from your head to leave your hair so tangled . |
| 30 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |