Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 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 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 5 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 6 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 7 | And then if we get agreement on a salary increase then we only have to pay it to one person |
| 8 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 9 | We discovered the beautiful scenery is not the only attraction of Monte Maggiore , and when we found the Residence Elena we felt , at once , that we just had to add it to our selection . |
| 10 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 11 | DEC 5 : Booked again following long-running feud with Southampton defender Ken Monkou , who says : ‘ He 's got a temperament , but you just have to leave him to it and do n't argue with him because that 's what he wants . ’ |
| 12 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 13 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 14 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 15 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
| 16 | Nobody ever volunteered to work with Brian , so Mr Grovey always had to force someone to , usually by threatening something terrible if they refused . |
| 17 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 18 | And he 'd probably have to resign himself to that situation until he returned to Winchester . |
| 19 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 20 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 21 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 22 | The grant of the chancellorship of the earldom of March to William Catesby may also have owed something to Hastings , although , given the location of the office , probably more to another of Catesby 's patrons , the duke of Buckingham . |
| 23 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 24 | The grant of the chancellorship of the earldom of March to William Catesby may also have owed something to Hastings , although , given the location of the office , probably more to another of Catesby 's patrons , the duke of Buckingham . |
| 25 | The consecration of his new basilica on the anniversary of Assandun and the erection of a church on the battlefield could also have owed something to Danish interest . |
| 26 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 27 | For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems , neglecting political and legal issues . |
| 28 | ‘ And did you really have to show them to everybody ? ’ |
| 29 | Come to think of it , if the bus had started out from NZ at the start of last season , it could just about have delivered everyone to Southampton in time for the famous Away Win . |
| 30 | Experience here has shown it to be highly successful . |