Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 2 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 3 | Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 . |
| 4 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 5 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 6 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 7 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 8 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 9 | I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ . |
| 10 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 11 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |
| 12 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 13 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 14 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
| 15 | You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise . |
| 16 | Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular . |
| 17 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’ |
| 19 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 20 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 21 | But how do we gain access to Renaissance culture , especially when our readings of the texts that document that culture indicate that a process of necessary counterfeit may have played a part in determining how these texts inscribed their culture ? |
| 22 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 23 | The research on lawyers , presented below , could have provided a basis for continuing to classify together lawyers , doctors and vicars . |
| 24 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 25 | Could she have found a strategy for comparing the areas ? |
| 26 | If you tackle it along the lines suggested in this booklet , you will have taken a step towards reducing the appalling costs the problem imposes on all of us . |
| 27 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 28 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 29 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 30 | There is nothing God-given about any particular system of measurement ; intelligent life on another planet might easily have evolved a method of assessing people 's incomes which involved multiplying by a fixed amount for each increment . |