Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle .
2 Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle .
3 Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade .
4 Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index .
5 She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’
6 There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own .
7 The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering .
8 Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech .
9 ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice .
10 Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda .
11 If so , you 'll probably want to have a high proportion of the mighty Imperial cavalry units , at least one steam tank and probably the war wagon as well .
12 Now , I expect you 'll both want to have a nice cold shower — so I 'll leave you to get on with it , ’ he added , giving them another of his slow , friendly smiles before he , too , made his way back to the larger house .
13 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
14 Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles .
15 She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse .
16 She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse .
17 I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book .
18 Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome .
19 Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself .
20 She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life .
21 And , of course , people who do help by sponsoring these items could even choose to have a rare creature named after them in an unusual form of immortality .
22 The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt .
23 The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat .
24 Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death .
25 The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings .
26 Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing .
27 Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’
28 I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal .
29 ‘ We would obviously like to have a synthetic surface of our own but we certainly would n't be able to provide such a facility without outside help . ’
30 I suppose you would n't like to have a quick lunch with me ?
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