Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] have [verb] an " in BNC.
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1 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
2 | I 'll just have to keep an an |
3 | The knock-on effect this had for me , which was quite important , was that I would otherwise have had an education slot for social policy issues . |
4 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
5 | You should also have set an example for this beforehand , by sometimes making yourself scarce when your parent 's friends come , without being in any way unsociable or unwilling to prepare food and drink for them . |
6 | Rule of Life No. 77 : if you should ever have to attend an inquest or similar official/judicial function : make sure you do n't have a hangover . |
7 | She would really have to get an umbrella , she decided , not for the first time . |
8 | We would still have had an extremist council — not Labour , but Labour and Liberal combined . |
9 | If the two papers had appeared out of the blue , with no preparation of the scientific ground , they would surely have made an enormous impact both among astronomers and in the wider world . |
10 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
11 | One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration . |
12 | It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock . |
13 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
14 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |
15 | At the University , pursuing his hope of becoming an archaeologist ( he may really have meant an antiquarian ) , he was studying for three Honours Degrees . |
16 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
17 | You see , we ca n't get away from the fact that if Kemp was in London , he could easily have caught an earlier train . |
18 | This I found strange since , to my innocent mind , I did not think that he could possibly have received an indication that a peerage was awaiting him . |
19 | He could never have been one of those charismatic men and women who inspire and enthuse ; equally , he could never have achieved an indifferent acceptance of failure . |
20 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
21 | It would probably have taken an expert jadesmith more than ten years to complete such a suit . |