Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus any black hole of one solar mass would not have had time to evaporate since the origin of the Universe ; however , very small black holes could have formed early in the life of the Universe and subsequently evaporated . |
| 2 | I shall have travelled away in the flesh from that wretched court — light years away by then , light decades . |
| 3 | Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’ |
| 4 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 5 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 6 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 7 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 8 | Even Casanova could n't have done more in the circumstances . |
| 9 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 10 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 11 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 12 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 13 | Homosexuals must have occurred previously in the family , but they were not recognized . |
| 14 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 15 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 16 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 17 | In fact , despite the common characterization of Cambridge as the home of the Eliot-Richards-Leavis modernist and New Critical " revolution " , it is noteworthy that T. R. Henn , a prominent member of the English faculty , referred in 1933 to " the vulgarity of most of Eliot 's work , all the more pernicious since cloaked by an austere and pseudo-learned style " , comments which would have rested easily in the review section of the Review of English Studies . |
| 18 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 19 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 20 | She would not have spoken thus in the presence of any of her own generation , but she was not being winsome : she was interested . |
| 21 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 22 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 23 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 24 | The ball could have gone anywhere in the scramble sadly it went into the back of the United net . |
| 25 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 26 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 27 | At first he would have remained chiefly in the care of women , learning how to behave , how to speak in a courtly fashion , when to keep silent , how to play and sing . |
| 28 | — established views on the issue raised by the question , which you will have learned about in the class or by your own reading ; |
| 29 | Underlying Plekhanov 's argument is the central idea that , in order to explain a social phenomenon , one must understand not just why it did ( or does ) in fact occur , but why it would have happened even in the absence of the particular beliefs and actions that caused it . |
| 30 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |