Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 2 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 3 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 4 | Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home . |
| 5 | They should have placed at their disposal Inigo Jones 's original designs for Whitehall Palace , ‘ which are of acknowledged beauty ’ . |
| 6 | Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 8 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 9 | They might have looked at her , all those swish guests with their famous names and fast cars , but she did n't care . |
| 10 | CUP favourites Dungannon got a harder battle than they might have expected at Ards . |
| 11 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 12 | They could have left at any time . |
| 13 | They were bound to have things in common , even if the difference in age made it unlikely that they 'd have overlapped at university . |
| 14 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 15 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 16 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 17 | They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results . |
| 18 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 19 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 20 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |