Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [modal v] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 2 | My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’ |
| 3 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 4 | ‘ My mam would have had a fit if I 'd gone out dressed like that . |
| 5 | We have proper birth certificates , because my mother must have told a simple lie to the registrar , a discovery about the verisimilitude of documents that worries me a lot as a historian . |
| 6 | At the end of some years of this ding-dong invention and counter-invention , the current version of both the missile and its antidote will have attained a very high degree of sophistication . |
| 7 | Queen Philippa died in August 1369 , and the removal of her influence may have hastened a deterioration in his character which became all too apparent in the 1370s . |
| 8 | She had enclosed patterns and detailed instructions , and while she hoped , for the sake of appearance at the wedding , that the children 's clothes would be properly cut and fitted , she also hoped that between them Cynthia and her dressmaker would have made a pig 's ear of the business . |
| 9 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 10 | And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit . |
| 11 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 12 | Certainly the industry must have encouraged the growth of local villas and houses exploiting the potential of their agricultural resources to the full , while the town in its turn would have provided a workforce and essential access to the necessary marketing facilities . |
| 13 | Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal . |
| 14 | British Aerospace said its advisers would have to take a detailed look at Ferranti 's books to satisfy themselves that there were no further problems before the company could proceed . |
| 15 | A mystery man in her life would have explained a lot . |
| 16 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |
| 17 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 18 | ‘ Human nature being what it is , my guess is that any maid worth her salt would have put a slightly imperfect dish in front of anyone but her master or mistress for the cook 's sake . ’ |
| 19 | One look inside her at the devastation of her soul would have told a very different story . |
| 20 | ‘ Their mother must have noticed a difference in them . |
| 21 | But he or his successor will have to wait a little longer for the revenue benefits which should flow from the more buoyant climate for project investment he has tried to create . |
| 22 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 23 | His assistant should have directed a scene after lunch but the director returned to find things at a stand-still . |
| 24 | Police believe a man walking his dog may have foiled a bank raid . |
| 25 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 26 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 27 | Morris is a decent , amiable guy , one of the best on the circuit , and he bit his tongue when many others in his position would have made a public scene of it . |
| 28 | Geoffrey Coombs wrote the letter after discovering that his school may have to lose a teacher if planned cuts to the education budget go ahead . |
| 29 | There was talk of the doctor saying his patient might have suffered a heart attack —' Nonsense ’ said Wilson — and then that her lungs were seized up —' They always have been , ’ fumed Wilson . |
| 30 | His trip should have taken a month . |