Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 3 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 4 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 5 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |