Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 2 | It is mentioned in the Old Testament and Pliny likened its appearance to human genitals , which can only have helped its amatory cause . |
| 3 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 4 | That is to say no French government and probably no French political party at this time was willing to concede the principle of secession ; and the permanent loss of Indochina would obviously have made it harder to hold on to French North Africa and even to Black Africa . |
| 5 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 6 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 7 | I do n't necessarily have to get him over-excited , mind , but the decision has to be mine . ’ |
| 8 | SOCCER player John Groves fears a broken leg suffered last year may finally have ended his playing days . |
| 9 | There is still the missing ingredient of ‘ power ’ : the nature of the replicators must somehow have influenced their own likelihood of being replicated . |
| 10 | It would create unfair trading as some buyers may already have reached their 90-claim limit . |
| 11 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Well , you 'll just have to put your overwhelming sex drive on hold for a while , wo n't you , because you need n't expect me to cater for your needs . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to seduce him all by yourself , ’ said Camille , reasonably . |
| 14 | ‘ If that 's the way you take it , ’ Arty said , ‘ I 'll just have to leave it all to the ould fellow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll just have to give it another go . ’ |
| 16 | The stopped chamfer template has not to my knowledge been marketed , readers who want one will just have to make their own . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll just have to make your own entertainment . ’ |
| 18 | You will just have to make your own mind up on my views . |
| 19 | ‘ The kinema might just have had its own generator . ’ |
| 20 | I guessed I 'd just have to swallow it strong and hot and black and bitter , I 'd run clean out of Marvel . |
| 21 | Others merely maintain the general atmosphere of menace and despair , while giving shape to a scene which could otherwise so easily have become itself rambling and melodramatic . |
| 22 | It must be getting very obvious , Gina thought , frightened by his frankness and aware that she could n't easily have told someone that . |
| 23 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 24 | To his dismay his weight problem was causing him to become increasingly short of breath and he would soon have to restrict his carnal pleasures . |
| 25 | So the value of PAS was established , and streptomycin was saved from the loss of efficacy which would otherwise soon have rendered it useless . |
| 26 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 27 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 28 | People living outside Belfast will still have to contact their main local station for rail information , but after business hours their calls will now be automatically re-routed to the new information centre . |
| 29 | He would not , I am sure , have understood the significance of the convolvulus ; or , if he had made any effort , he would still have got it wrong . |
| 30 | AD 620 there were rare English imitations of Frankish coin , but despite any possible tendency for this coin to become currency , it would still have found its greatest use for high-value transactions and storage . |