Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake .
2 That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party .
3 Nevertheless , Lambie was followed on this point in Hamilton : the cashiers would not have completed the transactions had they known of the forgeries .
4 It is not possible to determine the number of such people among the 119 recorded as dying in 1990 or how many would not have taken an overdose had they been aware that paracetamol , if taken in large quantities , often results in a painful and lingering death due to liver failure .
5 Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse .
6 Thus it was submitted that the question whether the death was in this case natural or unnatural was a matter exclusively for the coroner whose decision can be reviewed only on the basis that no coroner could reasonably have reached the conclusion arrived at here .
7 There he ‘ distinguished himself for Hebrew & Mathematics ’ , and might eventually have obtained a fellowship had he still been single .
8 The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim .
9 I could n't have stood the scene had I refused — and then I forgot to remove it once I started to stalk . ’
10 Er and the result was that the heavy casting you know , did n't have to travel the system had to be monitored correctly , you had to see that fair play er was the order of the day both in respect of the member and indeed the management to try and reach a er an agreement .
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