Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment . |
| 2 | Should I have started a new sentence then . |
| 3 | I always knew I was adopted , so why could n't I have had the whole truth ? |
| 4 | ‘ And … would she have wanted a yearly visit written into her marriage contract ? ’ |
| 5 | Would she have continued a different level of cover ? |
| 6 | Would she have continued a different level of cover , |
| 7 | The decision in G. v. G. is of course now well known , but I reiterate it , since the matter has been raised in this case , that is that even if the appellate court would itself have preferred a different conclusion it must leave the decision of first instance undisturbed unless it could say the decision was wrong . |
| 8 | She looked faintly stunned , as people do who have observed the misshapen : there is no Schadenfreude to ease the witnessing of deformity . |
| 9 | ‘ I see you have noticed a certain peculiarity about my appearance . ’ |
| 10 | Should you have drawn the red areas first , then the blue , followed by the black , this would not mean the colour order was decided in this way . |
| 11 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 12 | Could we have let the wrong men go ? ’ |
| 13 | Would they have made a different assessment ? |
| 14 | I think , possibly people who do n't make it have become a little starstruck . |
| 15 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 16 | Would he have raised a knowing glass ? |
| 17 | Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ? |
| 18 | Would he have had the inventive capacity , the command of idiom ? |
| 19 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |