Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] a thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one has suggested such a thing , I hope ? ’ said Dalziel , shocked . |
| 2 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 3 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 4 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 5 | Could you have done such a thing , Mom ? |
| 6 | Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , the Gruagach would never have done such a thing if it had n't been suggested to them , ’ put in Feradach . |
| 8 | How could he believe that she would have done such a thing ? |
| 9 | How could she have done such a thing ? |
| 10 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 11 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 12 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 13 | How could I have done such a thing ? |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't believe that a policeman could have said such a thing . |
| 15 | His aim is to make ACT number one supplier for the international finance sector , and although he admits he could n't have said such a thing three years ago without being laughed at , he now feels confident that it is a realisable goal . |
| 16 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 17 | ‘ Nor would you have said such a thing to Doreen , ’ she lashed at him , feeling even more irritated . |
| 18 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 19 | Why on earth would he have had such a thing ? |
| 20 | Maggie sat silently , shocked that she should have thought such a thing . |
| 21 | Mme Guérigny could not have borne such a thing . |
| 22 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 23 | What a madman Frankenstein was to have created such a thing , and to hope to keep its existence a secret ! |
| 24 | I heard you trying to persuade and then threaten this young lady to get her into your car , and it 's not the first time I 've witnessed such a thing . |
| 25 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 26 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 27 | Harry slipped the book into his pocket , wondering as he did so which previous patron of the Skein of Geese had handed such a thing on to Heather . |
| 28 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 29 | He would never himself have done such a thing to a brother king trouble . |