Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 . |
| 2 | Mm it 's rather sweet , perhaps it would have looked nice a bit further down . |
| 3 | Eliot himself might not have recognized them , just as he might have considered negligible the surface of his life which is apparent to biographers . |
| 4 | Leonora settled down to her breakfast in a better frame of mind than she would have believed possible the day before . |
| 5 | ‘ Do I have to get drunk every night just to keep you company ? |
| 6 | If , for instance , in 1.3.1 we had defined a to be a divisor of b if b = ac this would have left open the question of whether or not we are to call a divisor of b if no such c existed . |
| 7 | In other cases , Zuwaya threatened reprisals for injuries suffered : they might have to make good the threat , but usually persuaded their antagonists to pay compensation . |