Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [vb pp] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stated with authorial authority that only people who knew about the way the murder was committed ( a complicated affair using an invented tree-bark that became hard when wetted ) could have done it and I implied , but with fearful fair play nowhere explicitly stated , that this knowledge could only have been gained by one of a small circle who had watched the Maharajah play a certain practical joke . |
| 2 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 3 | Now that Coleman had been seen working with DEA agents in Cyprus , there was a clear risk that he might also have been identified by one of their Beirut informants as a friend of Tony Asmar 's . |
| 4 | This record so far has been dictated in one long burst . |
| 5 | Not only is Hardwick House the the environment for Kenneth Graham 's imagination , Toad himself may well have been based on one of the old inhabitants . |
| 6 | Had its fabric endured with its frescoes undamaged for just a few centuries longer , it might well have been ranked as one of the world 's Seven Wonders . |
| 7 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |