Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can perhaps understand why John Keats , ’ writing his first mature work of poetry , managed to confuse Balboa with Cortez ; a young and sensitive man , Keats may well have balked at including a figure capable of such wanton cruelty in a sonnet devoted to such tender sentiments . |
| 2 | Government simply had to act ; not to do so would have amounted to avoiding a problem that was ‘ evident ’ and ‘ plain' to all , particularly those who watched the news on television ! |
| 3 | He might have forgotten about needing a visa because he 'd developed the prisoner mentality , so common among people who were never permitted to travel . |
| 4 | If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise . |
| 5 | He could at least spend the money on it that he would have used in buying a ticket to see Dinah , in powdered wig and paduasoy , as Lady Teazle , once again . |
| 6 | BANGOR chairman Gifford McConkey must have dreamt of seeing a team in yellow shirts and blue shorts coming off the pitch victorious in Europe . |
| 7 | The Minister is a little older than I , but when I was a rough and tough lad , we would never have dreamt of carrying a knife and nor would he . |
| 8 | I 'd erm I would n't have thought of using a compass but you 're right are n't you . |
| 9 | Boswell explained , patiently enough to judge from his text , that he merely intended to see that all was well at Glenelg , to which Johnson replied , ‘ Do you know , I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket as doing so ? ’ |
| 10 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 11 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 12 | He might easily have opted for becoming a gynaecologist . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't have to explain , ’ she said , the way a school matron might have spoken on finding a member of the Fifth Remove engaged in some filthy practice in the school dorm . |
| 14 | ‘ What would he have gained by joining a group like that ? ’ |
| 15 | In fact , I could n't have worked without having a chase before I went in and during the lunch hour . |
| 16 | He was assuming that the slice had come from Miss Tuckey 's kitchen a makeshift to arm ‘ Praeger ’ while the others went to get a van or just new instructions since they would n't have planned on removing a body . |
| 17 | I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . |