Example sentences of "have [verb] the [noun] [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 | Moreover , corporates issuing directly in the CP market did not have to bear the costs associated with reserve requirements , requirements which encouraged the banks themselves to favour off balance sheet instruments . |
| 4 | Until 1381 the greater merchants contrived to maintain their influence in the court of aldermen , but after the Peasants ' Revolt Northampton was able to capture the mayoralty , and may have exploited the fears aroused by this disorder to try to inculpate his opponents . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 7 | He had kissed her because he must have seen the invitation written on her face . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | You may have seen the advertisements placed by Anglo-Welsh in the national press , stressing that ‘ there will be further and faster growth than Palatine can ever achieve on its own ’ . |
| 10 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | In dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Rattee said that the taxpayer could have made the returns accompanied by an indication that there were matters still outstanding which might affect the contents of the returns . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 she had been hurt , he would have had the slave bastinadoed . |
| 16 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 17 | My men will have had the place staked out since dawn . |
| 18 | His grace will have had the tomb made in advance , to remind him of things to come . |
| 19 | A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour . |
| 20 | And , of course , the man referred to as " Shakespeare " might have been Bacon , or rather he might have had the attributes associated with Bacon . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ But I would have thought the role called for a mature lead . |
| 25 | We could have got the handwriting analysed , ’ he said sceptically . |
| 26 | And hopefully by teatime I should have got the burning done . |
| 27 | Five years ago she 'd have got the woman sacked on some pretext , rendering her harmless if she alleged anything against a reputable doctor in a famous clinic . |
| 28 | But without this pride Antwerp might never have escaped the depredations suffered by Brussels . |
| 29 | Even if the Government and Opposition spokesmen are wedded to the idea of having King 's Cross as an interchange for the channel tunnel , they do not have to use the scheme proposed in the Bill . |
| 30 | He said BR would have to consider the spending required . |