Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
2 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
3 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
4 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
5 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
6 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
7 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
8 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
9 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
10 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
11 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
12 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
13 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
14 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |