Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 3 | Erm also as far as the husband 's back trouble was concerned , I f I felt that perhaps you should 've got a bit more information about the fact that he was going for tests next week at the hospital . |
| 4 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 5 | Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better . |
| 6 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 7 | We now propose a council tax that would have produced a bill this year of £617 . |
| 8 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 9 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 10 | I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA . |
| 11 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 12 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 13 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 14 | But the ancient world would have found a lot more uses for citrus fruit . |
| 15 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 16 | ‘ He would have spent a lot less time on the mountain if he had left a note in his car saying where he was going and when he was due to return . ’ |
| 17 | Along with the products would have gone a lot more of the people than USL cut loose right before it got bought . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should have put a bit more water into my late night whisky ? |
| 19 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 20 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 21 | But he admitted with a grin : ‘ If that was a trial run for Sunday I would n't have minded a bit more notice ! |