Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 2 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 3 | No civilisation under Imperial influence would have developed in such a direction ; it must be concluded therefore that they discovered the technology for themselves . ’ |
| 4 | My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams . |
| 5 | You 'll have to go through all the Bs |
| 6 | I 've got it timed so that I arrive just before your French maid number , so I do n't have to sit through all the rest of it . |
| 7 | There was one good Carling Black Label ad — where a guy walks into a bar and asks for a pint of Carling Black Label and they say , ‘ I bet he drinks Carling Black Label ’ — but we did n't have to sit through all the others just to see that . |
| 8 | Charles could picture the smugness with which Alex Household would have sat in such a sanctuary and discussed the frenetic activities of the Taunton company . |
| 9 | ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have forgotten in all the excitement . ’ |
| 11 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 12 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 13 | They can hardly have come as such a surprise to Daum . |
| 14 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 15 | They have to come up with a long-term training strategy — and offers of help have come from both the World Federation for Mental Health and the Richmond Fellowship . |
| 16 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 17 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 18 | Private care does n't have to answer to all the pressures that are on the statutory services . |
| 19 | ‘ In other words , they do n't have to comply with all the regulations that there would be in a training office . |
| 20 | Are they The chemist then would have to buy in all the bottles . |
| 21 | I could never have agreed to such a plan , but was pleased at Mick 's change of mood . |
| 22 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 23 | You could hardly have dreamed of such a possibility . |
| 24 | One of the researchers involved , David Sugden , cautioned however that global warming will make sea-levels expand regardless of any added volume caused by melting ice , and he added that " we would have to look at all the ice sheets in the world , not just two , before we could be sure what the effects would be " . |
| 25 | This type of competition may take much longer to judge as the judges will have to look at all the entries . |
| 26 | But to resist ecstasy : who would have thought of such a thing ? |
| 27 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 28 | After torrential rainfalls over the Bank Holiday , a spokesman for the Three Valleys Water area suggested : ‘ It would have to rain like this every day for three months to make any difference . ’ |
| 29 | However , Turner does n't believe that he would have arrived at such a conclusion if he had continued to live and write in Ireland . |
| 30 | He would , somehow , behave as the true Wolfprinces would have behaved in such a situation . |