Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [to-vb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 2 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 3 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 4 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 5 | Its cochlea , that vital , snail-shaped organ in the inner ear , will have started to degenerate a few days after birth , and the deterioration is completely irreversible . |
| 6 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |