Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 2 | She should never have let go — should never have cried so desperately in his arms . |
| 3 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody might have let slip something , they would n't have let loose every detail . ’ |
| 5 | He did n't need to fulfil a specific commission and could have made do with what he already had , but he wanted something better . |
| 6 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 7 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 8 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 9 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 10 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 11 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 12 | It is curious and yet inevitable that you , of all people , should have dared write a piece in the NewSS claiming to shed crocodile tears for the alleged disunity among , or between , the opportunistically ‘ revived ’ banners of the ARA and the ANL . |
| 13 | He stopped with the door handle in his hand and quietly said , ‘ Yes , I 'll come back some day when you are gone and I 'll find where you 've hidden the gun , for you would n't have dared take it outside this room , would you ? |
| 14 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |
| 15 | He said things which he would never have dared say to the General 's face . |
| 16 | There was no way we would have dared attempt these routes had they sported their current designations then . |
| 17 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 18 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 19 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 20 | The political culture may have helped generate problems of political structure , but Britain 's problems , I will argue , are not essentially political : they are economic and social . |
| 21 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 22 | It could have helped clarify a number of issues at an early stage and possibly saved people a lot of money and anguish . ’ |
| 23 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 24 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 25 | Proposals on the minimum wage and protection of workers ' rights ( through endorsement of the EC 's Social Chapter for example ) if implemented might have helped prevent exploitation of the " peripheral " workforce although the market advantage of the knowledge workers would continue . |
| 26 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 27 | This unexpected find would have helped pay for the dead work of the shaft sinking . |
| 28 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 29 | Dorothy One had died for something she believed in ( though Margaret was not quite sure what it was ) , but she 'd have helped keep Dorothy Two if she 'd lived . |
| 30 | The OAU stated publicly what has been the worry among many developing countries : it welcomed rapprochement between East and West but warned that funds which might have helped alleviate poverty in Africa may be diverted to central Europe . |