Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him .
2 Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived .
3 Whatever my father asked of me I should have said no .
4 It seemed to me you could have no other name .
5 It seemed to her she must have on every piece of jewellery the family owned .
6 Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening .
7 If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul .
8 And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks
9 Then I thought of what he might have done .
10 If he knew of them he would have them destroyed at once , and I do n't want that to happen . ’
11 I was not in love with Terry , never had been ; I went after him , deliberately , because I was ripe for an affair and I thought with him I could have one and enjoy it and still feel like the nice clean girl-next-door afterwards .
12 If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there .
13 If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads .
14 And Sue said she 's got nothing in view apart from that and she said to her you must have alternatives , she 's not applied to anybody or enquired about anything
15 Well you said to me he could have it he said I 'll have tonight .
16 I said to him you 'll have to go and get me some money cos I I ai n't got hardly any .
17 And I said to him you can have it for two , two fifty .
18 Frank said to you you can have
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