Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , if I 'd been there I would have given the wretched old woman a hefty slap myself — just to see how she liked it ! ’ |
| 2 | But who could have foreseen the amazing house-price boom of 1987 and 1988 ? |
| 3 | Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers . |
| 4 | With Labour , like Lamont , pledged to abolish the Budget as such , we may just have heard the last Tory Budget of all . |
| 5 | On reflection , costly mistakes were made with both the Class 27s and 45s , whose short careers could not possibly have justified the lavish life-extension work carried out on them . |
| 6 | Seasonal rains drenching uplands may have contributed to the water budget , but the annual precipitation of 2mm day simulated for high-latitude Gondwana could not have sustained the vast perennial freshwater lakes in southern Africa . |
| 7 | To be certain he would have to search the entire National Trust site . |
| 8 | Mr Alan Bleasdale , author of the Channel Four serial GBH , which the four jurors say should have won the best serial prize , joined the row , saying he wanted to share the award . |
| 9 | Foinavon should not have won the 1967 Grand National . |
| 10 | The education which accompanied — or indeed may have preceded the new economic order made family planning thinkable ( Banks 1981 ) . |
| 11 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 12 | Time and again between then and the UN deadline of January 15th , he could have averted the allied counter-offensive that followed . |
| 13 | You would n't have caught the late French President doing that , even when being shot at , and my De Gaulle also wore spectacles all the time , but the nose and toothbrush moustache were the same . |
| 14 | A hard sweep of his right hand , the edge smashing into the big man 's neck , should have felled the Latin American , but hidden beneath his poncho he wore a studded leather collar . |
| 15 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 16 | I am writing to warn other dog owners of the potential hazard of the rape plant ( you 'll have noticed the bright yellow flowers now covering so many fields ) . |
| 17 | It is expected that the price tag will have to exceed the previous local record of £32,000 , paid by Glenavon to Coleraine for Raymond McCoy two years ago , if Campbell is to join the limited band of players that have made the move from The Oval to Windsor Park . |
| 18 | Applicants who will have met the minimum academic entrance requirements by the time they enter university stand a good chance of being made an offer : those who have already met these requirements before applying will receive unconditional offers , while those with examinations still to take will receive conditional offers . |
| 19 | In these recessionary times , and with USA rugby currently without a major sponsor , the airing of ITV 's excellent programmes might have stirred the American general public 's interest in rugby . |
| 20 | Surely neither of the Meadowses could possibly have missed the deep sardonic note in his voice ? |
| 21 | It is hardly surprising that the reign of Napoleon I , an era of warfare on an unprecedented scale , should have seen the first tentative moves in this direction . |
| 22 | Yes , you could have seen the 1916 Russian epic , King Vidor 's 1955 version with Henry Fonda and Audrey Hepburn , Granada TV 's 1963 Emmy winner , Sergei Bondartchuk 's seven hour effort of 1964 , and in 1972 Rupert Davies and Anthony Hopkins in the BBC version . |
| 23 | Lucy Lane interrupted , authority in her voice : ‘ Before we move on , others of you must have seen the safe open from time to time ; it would be useful if we could establish how long the books have been there . ’ |
| 24 | He says he would have thought that a programme which attracts such high viewing and media attention would have sought the appropriate legal advice . |
| 25 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 26 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 27 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 28 | To claim his inheritance , Nero would have instructed the chief financial officer in Britain , the Procurator , Decianus Catus , to make a full inventory of the royal estates and possessions . |
| 29 | But it must be remembered that the choral music of Greek tragedy , now lost , might have conveyed the requisite metaphysical depth . |
| 30 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |