Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 2 | I would normally have killed them with one strike of my talons ! ’ |
| 3 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 4 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 5 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 6 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 7 | But it begins with a sizeable group of numbers from The Fairy Queen — two of them , incidentally , countertenor solos written out in the treble clef and a tone below their original key — so Purcell may indeed have started it in 1692 . |
| 8 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 9 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 10 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 11 | If she had n't reneged on her promise to go to Glenshee , Dane would never have followed her to that tiny cottage . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 13 | He would never have put it like that himself . |
| 14 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 15 | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more : it would certainly have spent it in different ways . |
| 16 | Ælfheah 's cult may therefore have presented him with considerable problems , and it is unlikely to be coincidence that the bishopric of London is known to have suffered at his hands . |