Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you should have given yourself longer . ’ |
| 2 | You must have given yourself away somehow . |
| 3 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ She should n't have given herself . ’ |
| 5 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 6 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 7 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |
| 8 | But it was not a great deceit , after all , and perhaps one day she might be able to explain it to them , and apologise , but for the present matters could not have arranged themselves much better . |
| 9 | What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position . |
| 10 | The Gnostics could not believe that in Christ the eternal God could have polluted himself by taking flesh and enduring crucifixion ; in the first epistle of John this denial is directly combated . |
| 11 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 12 | No doubt the right hon. Member for Yeovil , ( Mr. Ashdown ) would have regarded himself as semi-detached . |
| 13 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 14 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 15 | I would never have forgiven myself if you 'd died . |
| 16 | She would never have forgiven herself for feeling it , nor him for becoming aware of it . |
| 17 | Here was a sentiment I might have uttered myself . |
| 18 | I could n't have exposed myself as he and Sergei had done . |
| 19 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 20 | Ramsay MacDonald would never have exposed himself so apparently free from the burdens of state . |
| 21 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 22 | Ideally , a broodmare will have proven herself under saddle — a test of temperament as well as soundness . |
| 23 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 24 | ‘ I should have realised myself , ’ the dark man continued . |
| 25 | Not that he could have stopped himself from remembering . |
| 26 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 27 | Lou seemed to think she 'd have dolled herself up a bit before he came . |
| 28 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 30 | He would have respected himself more . |