Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack 's ‘ going with someone ’ , as Karen Black put it , was still Mimi , a relationship which had survived all predictions ; and , though it may have stopped a few magic moments between him and Black , it did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars , Susan Anspach . |
| 2 | He forbore to add that Poll might have earned a few more blows as the result of Sally-Anne 's intervention , to prevent her from involving anyone else in future . |
| 3 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 4 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 5 | Thus , assuming all goes well in this weekend 's national league games , Scotland will have used a mere 16 players during the course of the campaign , Peter Wright 's introduction for the injured Alan Watt proving the only alteration over the four games . |
| 6 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 7 | Bolton 's could have had a few more goals … thankfully Reece and his defence managed to stop the rot … |
| 8 | Bolton 's could have had a few more goals … thankfully Reece and his defence managed to stop the rot … |
| 9 | Still , they might have had a few more years left in them yet , and so in that respect , it was rather courageous of them to accept Nicholson 's script and Rafelson 's apparent decision that all good things must come to an end . |
| 10 | The conductor William Llewellyn may well have had a few sleepless nights but must have been proud of his singers . |
| 11 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 12 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
| 13 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 14 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 15 | I might have tried a few quick manoeuvres to lose those shadows . |
| 16 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 17 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 18 | The register , which had been provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act and featured in the Prime Minister 's " Citizen Charter " , would have covered an estimated 100,000 sites . |
| 19 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 20 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 21 | And I could n't have chosen a better three weeks to absent myself . |