Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 2 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 3 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 4 | I 've thought of going to my GP about this , but when I run through what I 'd have to say in my mind . |
| 5 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 6 | The range of restaurants , wine bars , DIY facilities , leisure complexes — compared with what we used to have . |
| 7 | Unigate 's chief executive , Ross Buckland , said yesterday : ‘ By buying the company before flotation , we reckon we have got a very fair deal , compared with what it would have been after flotation . ’ |
| 8 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 9 | People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that . |
| 10 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 11 | It is true that much contemporary prose has a clarity and directness that was often lacking at the time when Huey wrote , while technical aids have developed beyond what he could have imagined . |
| 12 | Then I thought of what he might have done . |
| 13 | But he had chosen to dress in what he may have conceived to be a British manner . |
| 14 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 15 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It kills me to think of what he might have suffered . |
| 17 | He could not seem to sleep or rest for fear that some danger would come from which he would have to flee . |
| 18 | That would have the advantages of specifying with precision what the parties have agreed , thus avoiding misunderstanding , and of enabling the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may have tentatively determined to depart from the agreed proposals ( post , pp. 277H — 278B ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The tour was appropriately chaotic , as most rock tours are : their first taste of the twenty-four hour a day , day to day flogging to which they would have to submit in order to compete . |
| 21 | And then you have to what you 'll have to do erm do n't bother to change the telly for the moment . |