Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [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 | And I admit to being guilty of one of Dewey 's charges : as an editor , I have not shared reviewers ' comments with other reviewers , and I have certainly published papers after they have received negative reviews yet may not have explained why to those reviewers who labour so hard on my behalf . |
| 4 | Although Milken could have received up to 28 years in prison , most observers were surprised by the severity of his sentence . |
| 5 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 6 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 7 | Demographic trends mean that by 1994 the number of 16 to 19 year olds will have dropped by about one quarter . |
| 8 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 9 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 10 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 11 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 12 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 13 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 14 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 15 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 16 | If he was going anywhere I thought he would have come here for Premier League football . |
| 17 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 18 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 19 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 20 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 21 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 22 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 23 | A hoard of 153 silver cups and one gold cup found at Tôd in Upper Egypt may have come originally from Minoan workshops ; the vessels appear to be Middle Minoan IB work , which was produced in Crete between 2000 and 1900 BC , and were found in an Egyptian deposit which has been dated fairly precisely to about 1920 BC . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it must be recognized that Duck was psychologically fragile and might have collapsed even in ideal circumstances . |
| 25 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 26 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 27 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 28 | A bigger worry is that the plan may not have done enough in three areas : open years , paying for the latest losses and litigation . |
| 29 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 30 | 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 . |