Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the assumption that the speaker was engaging in genuine communication , I would not have undertaken the processing involved unless I assumed that I would be able to sort the implications into those endorsed by the speaker and those which were not . |
| 2 | Presumably the rest of the police service overburdened with er investigations of crime as they are , will have to carry the burden caused by the Department of Transport 's errors . |
| 3 | Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched . |
| 4 | fatet : firstly , the child may not have seen the word written down , and so may be attempting to spell a visually unknown word ; secondly , the d-t error is caused by the similarity of the sounds ( cf. 5(d) below ) . |
| 5 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 6 | He had kissed her because he must have seen the invitation written on her face . |
| 7 | If the right hon. Gentleman had read the Chronicle this month , he would have seen the leader headed , ’ To introduce the poll tax is a mistake , to bring in the council tax is a disaster ’ . |
| 8 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 9 | He might have made a pass given time . |
| 10 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |
| 12 | As it stands , it is among the best of the poetry of the Oxford Movement , and probably a longer life would have produced the mastery foreseen by Bridges and James . |
| 13 | This will depend whether ( a ) the Nissan cars are for export to the EC , ( b ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have purchased an imported car or ( c ) they are sold in the UK to customers who would otherwise have bought a car produced in the UK by one of the other UK manufacturers . |
| 14 | Although this book can give you ideas , general hints and tips on how to press and arrange flowers , it is not until you really start designing pictures for yourself that you will have mastered the skill needed for this craft . |
| 15 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 16 | Pathfinders Tours , who should have had a steam run along the North Wales Coast last Sunday behind Princess Margaret Rose , told us that they have agreed a provision new date with British Rail of August 23rd , featuring the same locomotive . |
| 17 | He knew Carmella would have had a fit had she seen it . |
| 18 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 19 | The severity may have had a cause hidden from the young Ramsey . |
| 20 | If you had your baby at BMH , you may well have had a leaflet left on your bed by Birmingham West branch . |
| 21 | If she had been hurt , he would have had the slave bastinadoed . |
| 22 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 23 | My men will have had the place staked out since dawn . |
| 24 | His grace will have had the tomb made in advance , to remind him of things to come . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 26 | The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder . |
| 27 | Sole also believes that ‘ we should have had the game won by half-time ’ , and contends that Doddie Weir 's perforated eardrum — caused by Wade Dooley 's elbow — changed the course of the game . |
| 28 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I would have thought the role called for a mature lead . |
| 30 | He could easily have got a foot stuck and he would have drowned . |