Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 2 | The presence of the therapist can encourage partners to express their anxieties , needs , and wishes to each other , whereas previously they may have found this extremely difficult or even impossible . |
| 3 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 4 | They must have done this for at least ten minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish they could have left this alone till Christmas was over , ’ she whispered to Antony . |
| 6 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 7 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |
| 8 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 9 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 10 | It was clear , too , that they would have to do this together . |
| 11 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |
| 12 | They were all also , in one way or another , prejudiced and snobbish , although they would have denied this with their dying breath . |
| 13 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 14 | The DHAC announced that the exercise would be repeated the following weekend ; although the police warned that they would have to intervene this time , the demonstration went ahead and was extended to forty-eight hours . |
| 15 | Had they checked with a knowledgeable nuclear physicist — and there were several in the nearby physics department who could have helped — or held a technical seminar before the press conference , they would have learned this before events overtook them . |
| 16 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |