Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 2 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 3 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 4 | The section on industry was written as though Peter Lilley was going to retain his post : to have spiced it with ideas would have given the game away . |
| 5 | A Spanish paper would have given the game away and an English one would have been out of date . |
| 6 | This was decidedly amateur night and if the book itself had n't stuck out like a sore thumb among the reference works , then a quick look at the floppy spine would have given the game away . |
| 7 | I 'd decided to pay cash rather than use the PKB Amex card as that would have given the game away as to why we were there . |
| 8 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 9 | If these fish die will I have to strip the tank down before re-stocking ? |
| 10 | You will not have to strip the tank down but wait until the remaining fish are back to 100 per cent health and then begin re-stocking very slowly . |
| 11 | fright the white coats must have frightened the life out of you some . |
| 12 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 13 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 14 | ‘ They will have placed the bed so that it would . |
| 15 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 16 | two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo . |
| 17 | for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now |
| 18 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |
| 19 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 20 | Coward or not , I could have plunged a dagger straight into his black treacherous heart . |
| 21 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand , if foul play had not been suspected , even the overzealous Hassan might not have examined the spot too closely . |
| 23 | If I want to do some slap bass or play some very fast , light jazzy stuff , I 'd probably have to wear the bass quite high up , almost Mark King height , to really be comfortable . |
| 24 | ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules . |
| 25 | If so then it 's hardly surprising you did n't have to cancel a date tonight . ’ |
| 26 | She hoped the clock would break down so that she would not have to see the bird again ; she did not like it . |
| 27 | Being part of a ready-made community must have eased the transitions enormously , for Eva 's predominant memory of childhood is not one of upheaval but of " being happy " . |
| 28 | I should have rang the police straightaway , should n't I ? |
| 29 | At some point in the past , it was assumed , on the basis of speculative interpretation , that Pilate must have intended the title mockingly . |
| 30 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |