Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could only have believed that tanks had eternal lives . |
| 2 | The name meant virtually nothing to him , and a casual observer might easily have suspected that Manville had picked it out completely at random . |
| 3 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 4 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 5 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 6 | At one end of the scale are those competent enthusiasts who could probably have qualified as professionals had their careers taken a different course . |
| 7 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 8 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 9 | If so , Vincent rushed on , Theo might at least have waited until Vincent tried to squeeze him , ‘ as the saying goes ’ . |
| 10 | This would never have happened before Boldwood fell in love with Bathsheba . |