Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 3 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 4 | He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome . |
| 5 | In operational planning , the Declaration of Common Purpose , which Macmillan would have preferred to have called the Declaration of Interdependence , led to even closer relations between the British and American air forces . |
| 6 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 7 | It was held that there had been no negligence , but on grounds of public policy the court would not award compensation where the plaintiff would have had to have broken the law . |
| 8 | " He 'd have had to have opened the door and then left it open when he reset the alarms . |
| 9 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 10 | Many of us would have liked to have seen the savings that were made , recycling of the passenger transport area . |
| 11 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 12 | He 'd , I think he would have liked to have gone the four hour trip over I did n't think you 'd like that . |
| 13 | She would have liked to have made the truth plain — that the feeling , though not one to be taken too seriously , was mutual . |
| 14 | You would have liked to have extended the business a little m more then , would you ? |
| 15 | Sandys would have liked to have unified the policy direction and command of the three Services as part of his Reformation . |
| 16 | But I would have liked to have got the napkins to match , but she said they do n't come in with the napkins . |
| 17 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 18 | I would have liked to have shown the audience last night the footage that I did in Panama . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 20 | They 'd rather do that than having to piece twelve quarter then you 've got to have join the bit then all the pattern that will be matching exactly er you 'll use more . |
| 21 | I had hoped to have had the privilege of catching your eye , Mr. Deputy Speaker , on the first day of this debate , when it is acknowledged to be a free-for-all and any subject can follow another . |
| 22 | Various people have claimed to have had the idea for the scene in Curtiz' Casablanca where the patriots drown a German song with ‘ La Marseillaise ’ , but here , four years earlier , good-guy ex-rebels drown out ‘ The Union Forever ’ with ‘ Dixie ’ in exactly the same way . |
| 23 | you see he 's got to have to do the window ledge |