Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman may personally have achieved a rather soft landing , but sadly that was not true for the economy of which he was in charge . |
| 2 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 3 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 4 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 5 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
| 6 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 7 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 9 | Consequently he assumed that tribes possessing the classificatory kinship system , even if now separate and speaking different languages , must once have shared a common origin . |
| 10 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |
| 11 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 12 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 13 | The programme should also have included a Bill to deal with the crisis in our prisons , by implementing at least part of Lord Justice Woolf 's report . |
| 14 | Bridgend did score a good try through Gareth Thomas from a tapped penalty , while at the other end Jones should really have kicked a second penalty after Jenkins had been penalised for treading heavily on Yendle . |
| 15 | We shall remember Jack Nicklaus shedding the years in 1986 , and spiriting the ball into the hole with a long-bladed putter which must surely have made a fortune for its inventor . |
| 16 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |
| 17 | Having expected a casual Italian place , Belinda was a little perturbed to realise that this was L'Epoque , Brisbane 's newest and most talked-about French restaurant , which must surely have required a booking in advance . |
| 18 | By the unwritten laws of an unadmitted game , Six should never have sent a war-party into Five 's tribal land without at least telling the Co-ordinator . |
| 19 | Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place . |
| 20 | And when this was reported , Raimondin ( he was the original knight , the husband ) said , ‘ This is all your fault , I should never have married a horrible snake . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You should never have married a Tory , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The arrival of a new host in the form of the azure-winged magpie must therefore have seemed a godsend to the oft-thwarted cuckoo . |
| 23 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 24 | All I can say is , I think they must never have spent a night in The Bar if they think that , or never a good night . |
| 25 | LEARNER drivers may soon have to take a written exam as part of their tests . |
| 26 | Despite all the apparent sophistication of defence analysis , it may thus have produced a set of answers to the wrong question . |
| 27 | We may already have built a rewarding business relationship together and feel that by offering you the shell Account Card this will help to consolidate it . |
| 28 | … and since this is the nature page , readers may just have noticed a Conservative Party pre-election poster featuring a giant , savings-sucking mosquito . |
| 29 | At this juncture you may just have noticed a slight differential in pace between the ‘ amateurs ’ in this democracy game , and the alleged professionals . |
| 30 | There he ‘ distinguished himself for Hebrew & Mathematics ’ , and might eventually have obtained a fellowship had he still been single . |