Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London . |
| 2 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 3 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 4 | Er , that could have fallen off a car cos it was a big piece and there was n't anywhe anywhere else . |
| 5 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 6 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 7 | No longer do you have to go to a bank or stockbroker to deal in shares . |
| 8 | ‘ The thing is we 'll have to do something or we 'll find we 'll have to work for a living and we do n't want to do that . ’ |
| 9 | If Labour wants to attack ‘ greedy investors ’ by using regulation to cut ‘ excessive profits ’ , then capital spending will fall — or it will have to come from a government that can ill afford it even on Smith 's numbers . |
| 10 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 11 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 12 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 13 | Would she have collapsed into a heap if she 'd learnt that Stephen was silent because he was wondering if his father had murdered his mother ? |
| 14 | Would it have came off a cold or something ? |
| 15 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 16 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 17 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 18 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |
| 19 | People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that . |
| 20 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 21 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 22 | I would have thought with a child that it would be far better to be N H S. |
| 23 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 24 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 25 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 26 | We would have to practise in a garage or something . |
| 27 | Do you have to send off a deposit or anything ? |
| 28 | In such a case the firm may have to distribute through a middleman because it can not afford to employ a field sales force . |
| 29 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |
| 30 | She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself . |