Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 2 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 3 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 4 | Between them they could probably have established the reason for the failure quite easily . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 6 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 7 | If you 'd tape it for me you would n't have , I would n't have to have |
| 8 | I had written a particularly tear-jerking script for 1OAB 's ‘ last hour ’ for which we might well have played ‘ Hearts and Flowers ’ as an obbligato . |
| 9 | Sparing the time to make these two visits may show ways of substantially increasing the household income , and reducing its outgoings on rent , rates , prescription charges and many other expenses for which you may not have realised there is help available . |
| 10 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 11 | Churchill , who at first thought it was the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster which was the proposition and for which he would happily have settled , accepted the greater post with tears in his eyes and an expression of grateful loyalty . |
| 12 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 13 | Frankly , a lot of them I would n't have allowed in my own home , let alone the Palace . |
| 14 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 15 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 16 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 17 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
| 18 | But I 'll make , I 've got to make the other half of it , so when I make the other half of it he can probably have , er have a couple of jam ones |
| 19 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 20 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 21 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 22 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 24 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 25 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 26 | Without people like him we would n't have a PFK magazine and that would be about as bad as never having heard of fish at all ! |
| 27 | Once the heavy doors closed behind him he would never have to see her again . |
| 28 | Of course with a heart like his it would n't have taken long , but why pick on strychnine when he had a fair selection of the British Pharmacopoeia in his dispensary to choose from ? |
| 29 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 30 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |