Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
2 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
3 He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way .
4 They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law .
5 Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side .
6 They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted .
7 In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity .
8 ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean .
9 She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat .
10 in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board
11 ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni .
12 At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way .
13 And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale .
14 She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser .
15 I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write .
16 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 .
17 Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting .
18 Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here .
19 The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’
20 They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below .
21 They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year .
22 It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer .
23 Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven .
24 He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely .
25 Top flight football should have come back to The Valley .
26 Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing …
27 She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done .
28 Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor .
29 If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident .
30 The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen .
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