Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know how I can have fathered such children . |
| 2 | Detectives trying to trace the vans — a Ford Transit and a Bedford — have appealed for information from anyone who may have sold such vehicles in recent weeks . |
| 3 | She could have done such things . |
| 4 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 5 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
| 6 | She remembered Rob , the eldest boy , named after her mama 's father who had died in Arizona , saying to her one day , after she had been caught riding bareback at her uncle Orrin 's ranch in Wyoming , ‘ What a pity you were n't a boy , Sally-Anne ; we could have had such fun together . ’ |
| 7 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 8 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |
| 9 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 10 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |
| 11 | Without it , I doubt if he could have undertaken such work is he did . |
| 12 | Outside the hotel he would have attributed such behaviour to day excursionist ‘ Arrys and ‘ Arriets and called the police . |
| 13 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 14 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 15 | From childhood to grave , come rain or shine , joy or sorrow , but for a miracle , you yourself would have worn such garb to keep out the cold , the heat and the rain . |