Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Comfort of Strangers must have looked good on paper . |
| 2 | Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper , but in practice it was another thing entirely . |
| 3 | Issues which may have looked problematical in theory can be compared to see whether they are of consequence in practice . |
| 4 | The Sheikha was completely veiled but , I knew her eyes would have turned black with distress . |
| 5 | Hilda 's late husband Percy ( above ) would have felt right at home in her new flat |
| 6 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 7 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 8 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 9 | Some expenditure would have occurred irrespective of designation , but almost three-quarters of total spending occurred as a result of enterprise-zone declarations . |
| 10 | Its leaders were often student radicals , members of groups like the SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society ) ; but the wave of protest took in many young people who would not normally have got involved in politics . |
| 11 | Like any other part of the body it may have become weak through disuse , but it is a fact that the only people who do not have the ability to ‘ see ’ clearly in their minds are those who were born blind . |
| 12 | She must finally have become bored with school . |
| 13 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 14 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 15 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 16 | For down-filled sleeping bags Nikwax can also refill a sleeping bag 's baffles , which may have become short of down . |
| 17 | Noting that the lens and pupil of the eye were ‘ so finely shaped and fitted for vision that no artist can mend them , ’ Newton asked whether blind chance could have known sufficient of light and its refraction to have effected the design . |
| 18 | The south stand in particular looked like a midwinter Halifax v Northampton reserves match , and it must have seemed strange on tv . |
| 19 | The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’ |
| 20 | There seems no reason why they should have to pay extra for credit , to get a benefit they would judge unnecessary . |
| 21 | WELL I 'M AFRAID YOU 'LL HAVE TO GET USED TO IT ! |
| 22 | You do n't have to get stuck into Sky to hear the cry Burn Hollywood Burn . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think another caddie could have killed Froggy in order to get the job with Harley ? ’ |