Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 2 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Means I do n't have to drive home at any rate , ’ she said . |
| 4 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 5 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 6 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 7 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 8 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 9 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 10 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 11 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose most of your friends must have stayed there at one time or another , ’ she said casually . |
| 13 | What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ? |
| 14 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 15 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 16 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 17 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 18 | As for the future , well , I suppose I 'll have to move on at some time but for the moment I 'm quite happy at the theatre . |
| 19 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |