Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 2 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 3 | This is because Britain could not have defended herself in the Cold War order , and the common enemy demanded common action . |
| 4 | On a polyglot diet of great classics the bookworm might have gorged himself into a mere know-all , not into a writer capable of winning , and deserving , numerous prizes , including a Nobel . |
| 5 | How much better if I could have introduced myself as a fellow poet ! |
| 6 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 7 | Or worse : they might have found themselves in a tit-for-tat war with DeVore 's lieutenants . |
| 8 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 9 | It was extraordinary that lips so tight could produce any sound , that Lorrimer 's voice , high and distorted , could have forced itself through the vocal cords without splitting them . |
| 10 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 11 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 12 | The likeable Frenchman , born in St. Chamond in 1955 , could just as easily have established himself as a professional soccer player . |