Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 2 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 3 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 4 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 5 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 6 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 7 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 8 | Many of the tenants buying would have remained in the same houses , so there would not have been ‘ voids ’ for allocation in any case . |
| 9 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 10 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 11 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |