Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 2 | I would not have made him motm against Oldham , I thought the Oldham defenders Jobson and Redmond were the best players on the park . |
| 3 | Had the editor of " Private Eye " made impromptu allegations against Goldsmith on prime-time television , the long arm of the criminal law could not have felt his collar . |
| 4 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 5 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 6 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
| 7 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
| 8 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 9 | ‘ Your leg — and the Teller 's weakness — would not have let you stay with it . ’ |
| 10 | Do you normally have Do you have much for breakfast normally or not ? |
| 11 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 12 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 13 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 14 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
| 15 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 16 | All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . |
| 17 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 18 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 19 | You should n't have made me come down here . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't have done that , ’ Norman protested : ‘ I would n't have made her cry . ’ |
| 21 | If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover . |
| 22 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 23 | ‘ He could n't have made us do what he wanted otherwise since he was on his own . ’ |
| 24 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
| 25 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
| 26 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 27 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |
| 28 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 29 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 30 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |