Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |
| 2 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 3 | Thermoluminescence is emitted because crystal lattices contain defects , and electrons produced by the ionising radiation may become trapped at one type of defect ( a ‘ trap ’ ) . |
| 4 | Some may become trapped at new sites , extravasate , and form secondary tumours . |
| 5 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 6 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 7 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 8 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 9 | Most criminals would have panicked at that moment . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying the defence was crap , just not as good as it might have looked at first glance . |
| 11 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 12 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |
| 13 | Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment . |
| 14 | In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings . |
| 15 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 16 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 17 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 18 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 19 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 20 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 21 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 22 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 23 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 24 | There is one last function which small towns might have possessed at provincial level , that of acting as administrative centres for imperial estates . |
| 25 | Why should the book have opened at that poem ? |
| 26 | For this reason , developmental psychologists frequently introduce descriptions of mental models , cognitive representations or conceptual understanding to provide a link between the kinds of learning which may have occurred at one point in time and the relatively sophisticated behaviours which are subsequently observed . |
| 27 | Although we do not have a satisfactory explanation for the U/Pb fractionation , it must have occurred at shallow depths in the mantle , near a spreading ridge ; and the resulting enriched source regions have since remained fixed relative to the migrating lithosphere . |
| 28 | He regretted that his proposal for a peace conference a year ago had not been acted upon , as he was confident the Soviet Union would have participated at that time with beneficial effects for the whole world . |
| 29 | But she lived in the shadow of her sporty sisters and her mother who was ‘ captain of everything ’ when she was at school and would have played at Junior Wimbledon but for an attack of appendicitis . |
| 30 | They gained weight , and may have stayed at that weight for some time . |