Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have preferred to be a jockey . |
| 2 | And it would have had to be a lie anyway . |
| 3 | Coleman would have had to be a man of superhuman cunning and stupidity to have served for over 40 years fighting the very thing he was engaged in creating . |
| 4 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 5 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 6 | And I would have wanted to be an instrumentalist , not a singer . |
| 7 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 8 | A man like that did n't have to threaten to be an enemy , he was ready-made for it , especially with her . |
| 9 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 11 | The first part of assertion ( a ) above Freud would have held to be the case . |