Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 2 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 3 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 4 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm glad I did n't — it would only have shown us in a very discreditable light . |
| 7 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 8 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 9 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 10 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 11 | I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in . |
| 12 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 13 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 14 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 15 | What mu a a th agent says I only have to pay it off a day |
| 16 | Because you only have to identify them by a name not not a |
| 17 | When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia . |
| 18 | have er , oh well I 'll just have to put them in the oven they 'll go brown under the oven wo n't they ? |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to hump it up the stairs as best you can , wo n't you . |
| 20 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 22 | If the frost comes early , I 'll just have to bring them into the airing cupboard wo n't I ? ’ |
| 23 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 24 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 25 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
| 26 | The likeable Frenchman , born in St. Chamond in 1955 , could just as easily have established himself as a professional soccer player . |
| 27 | You no longer have to bring it within an exception . |
| 28 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 29 | And we 'd go to the theatre or but I mean we do all that sort of thing still but we just have to cram it into the week . |
| 30 | I do n't know , just have to play it on the piano I think before you oh Tim , what have you done dear ? |