Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage , David Stirling might perhaps have allowed himself a moment or two of self-congratulation . |
| 2 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 3 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 4 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 5 | In 1980 we ought perhaps to have asked ourselves whether this river might have been the Shatt al-Arab itself , while one of the characters was Iranian and the other Iraqi . |
| 6 | They would thus have reproduced themselves and multiplied . |
| 7 | But whereas the mum-to-be would normally have found themselves admitted for a spell in hospital for monitoring , the centre can do it in a day . |
| 8 | ‘ Homework , ’ Herr Nordern said with more sympathy than he would normally have allowed himself . |
| 9 | He scrabbled for the switch , thinking it must somehow have clicked itself off . |
| 10 | As our currency has dropped in value so drastically in recent years , the demand should already have revealed itself . |
| 11 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 12 | A few of its members may already have persuaded themselves that a protector was the most reliable counterweight to Woodville influence . |
| 13 | A few of its members may already have persuaded themselves that a protector was the most reliable counterweight to Woodville influence . |
| 14 | Others merely maintain the general atmosphere of menace and despair , while giving shape to a scene which could otherwise so easily have become itself rambling and melodramatic . |
| 15 | The likeable Frenchman , born in St. Chamond in 1955 , could just as easily have established himself as a professional soccer player . |
| 16 | He could so easily have hurt himself or irreparably damaged the glider but , in fact , he was very lucky and did surprisingly little damage . |
| 17 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 18 | I should n't ever have got myself into that position but it 's a wonderful feeling when you get yourself out of it . |
| 19 | doubting that we would ever have put ourselves out so much for you … . |
| 20 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 21 | ‘ Only then someone destroyed my confidence , my ability to trust , and , looking at you now , I ca n't for the life of me see how I could possibly have thought myself in love with someone so shallow , so completely self-centred . ’ |
| 22 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 23 | Now that his consciousness was changed , how could he possibly have allowed himself to speculate about its identity , postpone the means of putting his mind at rest and then , ostrich-like , avoid the issue altogether ? |
| 24 | Of those who left — well over half a million people — scarcely any had disinherited themselves by claiming compensation under the Israeli Absentees Property Compensation Law of 1973 . |
| 25 | However , had the hiccup in the company 's meteoric rise to the top of the fine chemicals tree come a little sooner Mr Lines would probably have saved himself around £100,000 the personal cost of founding three academic chairs at the Poly . |
| 26 | MEYERSON MAY ALSO HAVE RULED HIMSELF OUT |
| 27 | He might also have considered himself a very lucky man , as an actor of limited range who made his screen debut in the classic High Noon ( 1952 ) , playing the harmonica-playing member of the gang out to kill Gary Cooper . |
| 28 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 29 | I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether . |
| 30 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |