Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 2 | Although Milken could have received up to 28 years in prison , most observers were surprised by the severity of his sentence . |
| 3 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 4 | Demographic trends mean that by 1994 the number of 16 to 19 year olds will have dropped by about one quarter . |
| 5 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 6 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 7 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 8 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 9 | Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture . |
| 10 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 11 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 12 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 13 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 14 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 15 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 16 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 17 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 18 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 19 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 20 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 21 | My children should have grown up into loyal Abbey national customers . |
| 22 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 23 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 24 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 25 | They could have applied up to five years . |
| 26 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 27 | When it was on scheduled service , the jumbo would have had up to 450 passengers and 12 crew on board . |
| 28 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 29 | Beneath the overwhelming memories of physical delight there were fears — a fear that she might not have measured up in some way . |
| 30 | A stone of about eighteen inch four by four with the appropriate heading I would have thought up to four names , depending on how many names there is in the |