Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Particularly considering the late night we 'd all had on the Saturday . ’ |
| 3 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 4 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 5 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 6 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 7 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to lie on my bed all day thinking about every bloody meal I 'd ever had in my life . |
| 9 | Some novelty value because he was the first Russian they 'd ever had in the car , but that was all . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's happened , Mr Gooseneck ? ’ asked Amiss , when he had worked his way through the first stage of what was one of the best breakfasts he 'd ever had in his life . |
| 11 | He remembered a conversation he 'd once had with his brother , who had teased him about his interest in the works of Elinor Dove . |
| 12 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 13 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |
| 14 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 15 | She could n't understand why I needed to lodge in London at all , but insisted that any accommodation I settled on had to be approved by the university authorities . |
| 16 | The additional services needed therefore have to be financed from some other source . |
| 17 | the people that went before have to sort of do it , but as I say he was n't er , er |
| 18 | Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom . |
| 19 | Too many local authorities used the changeover to milk people of money that they did not have through bills that they could not have anticipated and therefore provided for . |
| 20 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 21 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 22 | Perhaps this expedition did not have to be a total waste . |
| 23 | But suddenly , social life and entertainment , or the lack of it , faded into insignificance for me , with the arrival from North Africa of a mysterious and rather unsubtly coded letter which one did not have to be a cryptanalyst to interpret as evidence that Leslie was coming home . |
| 24 | This model did not have to be of the same sex . |
| 25 | Apart from accuracy and price , what set the Polar apart was that , unlike the other portable meters , the runner did not have to be wired up with unsightly cables leading from the electrodes attached to the chest . |
| 26 | As for the medical practitioner before the discovery of antibiotics , what did not exist did not have to be taken into account . |
| 27 | ’ One did not have to be a political commentator or a student of politics to know that Hitler was not just a psychopath . |
| 28 | Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months . |
| 29 | His debt did not have to be less than £20 ; it could be for any amount . |
| 30 | ‘ At least the race was completed and did not have to be declared void , ’ Arkwright added . |