Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 2 | The SRU committee would obviously have to discuss such a suggestion . ’ |
| 3 | Besides , he had keys if he arrived while she was out , so he would wait for her , especially having come all the way from Hong Kong , she comforted herself , with a vague feeling that she was somehow cheating . |
| 4 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 5 | The parties can not have intended such a consequence . |
| 6 | But early users of the language would not have made such a distinction . |
| 7 | It is thought that the Criminal Law Revision Committee , the Report of which formed the basis of the Theft Act , would not have wanted such a result but would have preferred the outcome to be theft ( para. 65 ) . |
| 8 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 9 | Mme Guérigny could not have borne such a thing . |
| 10 | I would not have felt such a burst of passion for a relative . ’ |
| 11 | yeah , that 's the only thing I 've , it 's the only horse he might not have got all the way round this time |
| 12 | I would not have thought such a style of waiting a great stimulant to appetite . ’ |
| 13 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 14 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 15 | He 'll just have to drive all the way back home . ’ |
| 16 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 17 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 18 | Chief coach Rod Carr could hardly have expected such a position at this stage of the Olympic run-up and it is a justification of the Richard Ellis elite squad system under which financial and training assistance has been concentrated on a small number of the best sailors in each class . |
| 19 | It is the regulations imposed on the Asia Minor city of Erythrai in c.450 BC ( ML 40 = Fornara 71 ) which included a Council appointed by lot ; Athens would hardly have exported such an institution before she had one herself . |
| 20 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 21 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 22 | They 'd been delighted therefore to renew acquaintanceship at the beginning of the tour ; and thereafter had spent many an hour together , talking about old comrades they 'd known — those who 'd come through , and those who had n't … and reminiscing about some of the ‘ local talent ’ the GIs had been only too happy to discover , in Oxford itself and in some of the surrounding towns and villages . |
| 23 | Would a traitor to the socialist cause ever have received such a welcome at a Labour Party Conference ? |
| 24 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone caught damaging lights also has to make good the damage , and that can be very expensive . |
| 26 | So in twenty four hours it will be exactly as it is now having gone all the way round , yes ? |
| 27 | Eliot himself could not legally have signed such a document since he was separated from her . |
| 28 | To Black Cab drivers reading this with a told-you-so expression , I really had spent half an hour trying to flag one down ! |
| 29 | She lived in Salford and was so poor that she often had to walk all the way to Manchester to rehearse . |
| 30 | Could our grey plovers really have flown all the way from Arctic Siberia ? |