Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may have heard in the seven o'clock news , three British hostages are now on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 2 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 3 | To take one of the most outstanding examples mentioned by Bob Bocock in one of his books , I forget which one it is now , but in one of his books , Bob Bocock er , mentions that the doyen of mid-twentieth century sociology , Talker Parsons , who some of you perhaps may never of heard of , but er , you certainly would have done in the sixties and seventies , because he really was the major fi figure in Anglo-American social theory . |
| 4 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 5 | So we have followed that plan and in nineteen ninety we conducted a study as to exactly how this could be done , a er an integrated agency management structure was devised and a plan was er produced which would have resulted in the two agencies merging at the beginning of this year at the start of the what was then planned the D I phase . |
| 6 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |