Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 2 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 3 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 5 | In retrospect , Labour 's leadership team miscalculated : they could have wrung more from a week when the party was so eagerly compliant . |
| 6 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 7 | His dark grey suit would have sat well on a clerk in a City bank . |
| 8 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 9 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 10 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 11 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 12 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 13 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 14 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 15 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 16 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 17 | ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend . |
| 18 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 19 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 20 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 21 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 22 | And Doherty , who worked tirelessly , might have done better with a John Easton cross , his header going over the top . |
| 23 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 24 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 25 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 26 | Rumours are circulating among the ‘ Highgrove Set ’ — the circle of Gloucestershire landowners who mix with the royals — that Charles and Camilla may have met briefly at a hunt a week ago . |
| 27 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 28 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 29 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 30 | For example , you may have copied directly from a book into your notes , then forgotten that your notes are not your own original work , and so incorporated them directly into your essay . |