Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 2 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 3 | No they must have had a cylinder there already . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 5 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |
| 6 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 7 | ‘ They must have had a lot of replies , ’ said Penelope . |
| 8 | Well they must have had a lot of bottle . |
| 9 | They must have had a key , then ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If somebody killed him they must have had a motive , but what ? |
| 11 | They must have had the house under surveillance , like . |
| 12 | Swindon thought they should have had a penalty . |
| 13 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 14 | ‘ They should have had an interviewer questioning people and going into things more deeply — maybe in a phone-in format , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Middi said yesterday : ‘ I was very annoyed — they should have had the courtesy to tell us . |
| 16 | You know , they 'll have had a night out on the tiles . |
| 17 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
| 18 | Did you say somebody called but perhaps they had a key though , I wo n't say anything to her , they might have had a key . |
| 19 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 20 | The difference in the popular vote was less dramatic : for the CPP , 398 141 ( plus five uncontested seats , where presumably they could have had a landslide ) ; for the combined opposition , 299 116 votes . |
| 21 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 22 | Still , the idea that they could have had the kind of torrid relationship that leads to murder was another matter . |
| 23 | They 'd have had a lot . |
| 24 | Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 26 | Without the support and expertise they would have had no future . |
| 27 | Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done . |
| 28 | These concerned matters that were a pure technicality ( being allowed to run an advertisement that they would have had no intention of ever running again ) and a virtual truism ( being told that future circumstances may arise in which they should be reasonably able to readdress the issues at hand ) . |
| 29 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 30 | They would have had some sort of premonition , or maybe some would say they would have had a revelation from God . |