Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would 've seen it last week though . |
| 2 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , a member of the tournament committee heard this picturesque statement of Jack 's intentions — not difficult , you could probably have heard it twenty miles away at the PGA headquarters — and of course the stockbroker was a close friend of the sponsor . |
| 4 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 5 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 6 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 7 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 8 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 9 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 10 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 11 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |
| 12 | She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château . |
| 13 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |
| 14 | He was almost sure he must have ditched it some place . |
| 15 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 16 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 17 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 18 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 19 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 20 | Well she goes June come on , could have had it next Friday I think something must be happening next Friday , she goes to Australia on the seventh well maybe that is next Friday Oh no it 's the is n't it ? |
| 21 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 22 | Ruth had never tasted ice-cream before coming to America and now , like Anna , she could have eaten it all day long . |
| 23 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 24 | I thought the maid must have left it that way . |
| 25 | ‘ You could have held it two years ago , no problem . |