Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 2 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 3 | It was not just her station in life which precluded choice but life itself and she felt foolish not to have realised this long ago . |
| 4 | MacQuillan , as a newcomer to the Fleet Street scene and a man who was averse to advice from others , appeared not to have realized this . |
| 5 | PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet . |
| 6 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 7 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 8 | I should have preferred not to have to raise this matter in an Adjournment debate . |
| 9 | Ramsay had hoped not to have to bring this forward if it could be avoided . |
| 10 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 11 | In some respects , he is the last major social theorist directly to have confronted this issue in its own terms , despite the fact that this same quantitative rise in material culture has continued , and appears set to continue , at a most extraordinary rate . |
| 12 | He is one of the two architects ever to have held this position twice , but this may have been more in recognition of his wealth and status as an MP , and for his interest in the organization of the profession , than for his abilities as an architect . |
| 13 | If my mother was the constantly anxious sort , always worrying unduly about ‘ what will happen if … . ’ , then I may turn out to have learned this way of response myself . |
| 14 | The Americans seem now to have taken this aboard . |
| 15 | and the money for your daughter in the future so do you feel that it 's been of some benefit to you today to have had this discussion ? |
| 16 | The only scholar as yet to have followed this scent is Tom Paulin in his Thomas Hardy ; The Poetry of Perception ( Totowa , New Jersey , 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , the court seems never to have decided this ‘ territoriality ’ question in relation to the predecessor sections in the earlier Acts , such as sections 42 and 44 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 , section 320 of the Companies Act 1948 and section 172 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |