Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far Saatchi and Saatchi has maintained its ability to win new business and remarkably has clung on to its status among advertisers , only recently being voted the best all-round agency . |
| 2 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 3 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 4 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 5 | You are suggesting , tactfully , that he did n't like what he saw ( correct ) , and that if he had seen more , he would perhaps have come round to your way of thinking in these matters ( incorrect ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 7 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 8 | The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen . |
| 9 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Doctor , ’ threatened Fakrid , ‘ you 'd better have come up with something . |
| 11 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 12 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 13 | Definitely , yes , and you , you and Dave could have come up and er Carla , perhaps not Lee , but , you know , he may have wanted to go off somewhere else , erm , we could all have bunked down on what spare space there was and I was going to do a very primitive almost medieval , middle ages sort of Christmas |
| 14 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 15 | Beside her , however , Alan seemed suddenly to have sunk back into grim-faced absorption . |
| 16 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 17 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 18 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 19 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 20 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 21 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman always gives in to lobbies and should not have given in to that one . |
| 23 | But events need not have turned out like that . |
| 24 | That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’ |
| 25 | Leo would not have fitted in with Leeds but Ronny might be the defender we want ( in some papers they have used the term midfielder on him — he — really — very flexible ) |
| 26 | Emancipated as she considered herself , Zeinab would not have gone up to them alone . |
| 27 | ‘ I would not have gone in on my own , ’ he admitted , ‘ but I think that we might go again . |
| 28 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 29 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 30 | On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations . |