Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 2 | I suspect that she may have telephoned yet again in the small hours . |
| 3 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 4 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 5 | It was 1859 before Alexander gave reformers their head by granting them control of the Editing Commissions , and by then the prestige of the throne would have suffered far more from the abandonment of emancipation than from allowing a version of it to go through . |
| 6 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 7 | On the contrary , they may well have moved much closer to the type which will be referred to as putatively postmodernist . |
| 8 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 9 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 10 | If he had n't become a personnel officer he would have done rather well in the police . |
| 11 | Harries , already unsuccessful with two very kickable penalties , and replaced by Jones , who had landed an angled one from 28 yards , might have done rather more with the opportunity , but Newport scored straight afterwards . |
| 12 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 13 | I have a granddaughter now going up to Burnt Mill and I think myself , they could n't have done any better in the grammar school . |
| 14 | Thereafter McCoist had two ‘ goals ’ disallowed — one inexplicably — and he might have done better immediately after the break when Hateley , the most dominant attacking figure on the field , crossed to the head of the striker after an excellent run down the right . |
| 15 | The seaside resorts in the North-West of England , as elsewhere , could not have grown very far without the railways … |
| 16 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 17 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 18 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 19 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 20 | On a few occasions other service-providers sought to refer clients directly to the project ; and very occasionally expressed the wish that the development officers could have acted more quickly with a client whose situation they felt needed immediate action . |
| 21 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 22 | Conditions were not so bad , however , that Pliny and his mother could not have got well away from the town into a safer region , but they were reluctant to leave because they were worried and uncertain about the fate of the elder Pliny . |
| 23 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 24 | Had they been stronger , the Romans would doubtless have dealt more forcefully with the barbarian threat . |
| 25 | You may not have behaved too badly under the circumstances ( though we all have a limit to the length of our inner fuse ) ; but how much of the conflict was contributed by the part of you over which you seem to have less control , the fire down below , the lesser-disciplined arena of your own strong inner responses ? |
| 26 | ‘ Eric 's ears will have stretched quite considerably in the last couple of minutes ! |
| 27 | Perhaps I would be a bit churlish if I said that they could have scored even more in the second half , but that 's a minor complaint . |
| 28 | Cambridge dominated the game and should have gone further ahead in the 76th minute when John Francis broke free , only to blaze high over the bar from the edge of the box . |
| 29 | In a big case ( perhaps three , four or even five years old ) the rates may have increased very substantially between the issue of the writ and the date of trial ; and that makes an enormous difference to quantum . |
| 30 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |