Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 2 | high-profile job and the leadership of a professional association , which might have proven too much for a lesser , or older , man . |
| 3 | The solution must have looked quite funny to an onlooker . |
| 4 | The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest . |
| 5 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 6 | Three-quarters of MPs receive between 20 and 50 letters a day , whereas in the 1960s they would have had this many in a week . |
| 7 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 8 | The court accepted both the widow 's evidence and expert evidence that the defendant 's demeanour would have appeared reasonably sober despite an alcohol level of 131 milligrams . |