Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 3 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 4 | This remodelling might also be contemporary with the decision to provide earthwork defences , though it could have preceded it by several years on current dating evidence ; either way , such changes mark a significant watershed in the town 's development and pose important questions about its status and function . |
| 5 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 6 | But anyway , he 's optimistic we 'll have sorted it by two thirty . |
| 7 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 8 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 9 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 10 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 11 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 12 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 13 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 14 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 15 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 16 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 17 | ‘ She never would have done it without such easy access to a gun ’ Woman used jail issue weapon to take her own life |
| 18 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 19 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 20 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 21 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 22 | We made the journey in three days ; we could have done it in two but we chose not to . |
| 23 | Nor could he have said it in 1985 , when the uprating was 35p per child below inflation . |
| 24 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 25 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 26 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 27 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |
| 28 | Should have made it with that . |
| 29 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 30 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |