Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 2 | I could have done with a few . |
| 3 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 4 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 5 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 6 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 7 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 8 | To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent . |
| 9 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 10 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 11 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |