Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she had been angry with fitzAlan , she would not have blurted out the bare facts to just anyone . |
| 2 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 3 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 4 | You will have to work out the potential problems for the patient , and take care to avoid them . |
| 5 | The story of the Borders is largely one of cattle-rustling on a scale which would have amazed even the American Wild West , of internecine feuds as violent as those of Sicily , and of cliques of racketeers who brought into the language the term ‘ blackmail ’ , meaning ‘ black meal ’ or ‘ black rent ’ — in other words , protection money . |
| 6 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 7 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 8 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 9 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 10 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |
| 11 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 12 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 13 | But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier . |
| 14 | It was all right for her , she did n't have to clean up the sodding confetti . |
| 15 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 16 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 17 | Surely , having gone completely against what is standard medical advice for a hiatus hernia , he would have done exactly the same had his heart been suspect . |
| 18 | Of course , you do n't have to set up the JMP-1 through a regular stage rack . |
| 19 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 20 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 21 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 22 | And a judge may have to sort out the immediate squabble . |
| 23 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 24 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 25 | You may have to pick out the occasional burnt chip ! |
| 26 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 27 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 28 | Should have laughed all the more were n't ya ? |
| 29 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |
| 30 | But once you 've got there , you do n't have to play down the big moments , or play up the character scenes , because it 's all so perfectly balanced . ’ |