Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has claimed to have developed a method for breaking down large amounts of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 2 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 3 | Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government . |
| 4 | Erm you closed questioned which I thought Martin made very difficult for you but er obviously intentionally but erm what else is it you mentioned erm pension or benefits from the navy , you never actually picked up on whether he had any erm pension benefit from , from the forces which is something that , that we would have had to have made a note of . |
| 5 | First , the young person would have had to have found a job , and that job would itself have to offer day release , which at the age of fourteen would amount to two days a week . |
| 6 | No , cos I was gon na pay the butchers which I would have had to have changed a note and you said I 'll pay . |
| 7 | I 'd have loved to have built a 10-year career around him , but I fully understand his reasons for going . |
| 8 | I 'd have loved to have seen a database import facility in the software . |
| 9 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 10 | While I would have liked to have seen a bit more about 9 Sqn 's contribution to the Tirpitz attacks , I appreciate that this is a book about 617 Sqn . |
| 11 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have liked to have seen a few more North and Mid Wales sides near the top of the league , ’ he says . |
| 13 | He would have liked to have made a run for Mexico but he had work to do , and there was n't a chance of their surviving that long a race against the hurricane . |
| 14 | He would have liked to have taken a doggy bag to restaurants and collar extras he could n't quite fit in , like garlic bread , crusty granary rolls and After Eights . |
| 15 | Dot would have liked to have had a hand to hold . |
| 16 | They would have liked to have had a baby together , but she lost triplets , was very ill , and it seemed a family was not to be . |
| 17 | Sandys would have liked to have established a similarly unified headquarters at Singapore , but determined Naval opposition thwarted him . |
| 18 | She would have liked to have wed a Jewish boy , primarily for mother 's sake , but fate had decreed otherwise . |
| 19 | He would have liked to have put a hand on her shoulder now to comfort her . |
| 20 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 21 | Nobody he had questioned had seen a second piper . |
| 22 | Over the past year just about every interview I have done has included a question about the galleries but I never thought there would be a problem . |
| 23 | For them to sign off price correct , they have got to have had a look at the measure . |
| 24 | Her tablets have worked have worked a lot . |
| 25 | Teachers articulate purpose Such developments as we have outlined have caused a distinct uneasiness among some British teachers . |