Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [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 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 12 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 19 | For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems , neglecting political and legal issues . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Experience here has shown it to be highly successful . |
| 22 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 23 | I seem to recall we dealt through local estate agents , and knowing the properties personally , I might well have recommended them to you , as a prospective buyer … |
| 24 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 25 | One might even have thought him to be angry . |
| 26 | As well have handed her to Benedict ! ’ |
| 27 | Sam here 's asked me to be his wife , and I do n't see why I should n't tell him yes . " |
| 28 | She joined AIB Bank in Bankcentre branch in October 1980 and her career since then has taken her to 100 Grafton St. , 1985–90 and Mary Street from then until her transfer to Cabra in July 1992 . |
| 29 | Wilson could almost have dictated it to them , and perhaps another man would have . |
| 30 | But North would doubtless have liked him to ; for even Poindexter confessed that he could hardly hold back from revealing , just once , the glorious ruse with which the president 's dearest cause was being supported . |