Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 2 | The locomotive was ‘ Perseverance ’ , and the damage to her may have included boiler damage , as old tubes were sold and new ones bought as a consequence of the accident . |
| 3 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 4 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 5 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 6 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 7 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 8 | But now , going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking , and I was overjoyed when she decided to join me . |
| 9 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 10 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 11 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 12 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 13 | It 's alright for some to be able to buy private health care , and then the rest of us can have a diminishing and reducing National Health Service both in Nottinghamshire and throughout the rest of the country . |
| 14 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 15 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 16 | I caught the rollerskating bit but am afraid the rest of it must have passed me by . |
| 17 | ’ It is most important that the French should be aware of the united action of England with the other powers , the knowledge of it will have a most wholesome influence on the French government . ’ |
| 18 | Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse . |
| 19 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 20 | The present trend of setting up courses only in response to staff shortages will be superseded in the future by any forthcoming legal requirement , and so the administration of courses and the rationale behind them will have to change accordingly . |
| 21 | I think the answer to it must have been " Yes . " |
| 22 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 23 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 24 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 25 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 26 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |
| 27 | If the floor plates have ever been removed then the sealer around them may have been damaged and need replacing . |
| 28 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 29 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 30 | I 'm telling you , you wo n't have the fire on you 'll have the bleeding lot on . |