Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you !
2 When she was hurt she put herself out of reach ; Caro knew that by now , and she would have given a lot to undo the conversation .
3 Had he not assumed the initiative it was feasible she would have given a reason to keep them out .
4 You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one .
5 There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence .
6 Well you could have heard a pin drop .
7 Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer .
8 Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious .
9 You could have heard a pin drop .
10 ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road .
11 In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor .
12 The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake .
13 I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs .
14 Did you have to wear a uniform to go to work ?
15 By then North West Water will have completed a pipe to carry Blackpool 's sewage three miles out to sea .
16 You do n't have to see a show to eat at our warm and welcoming bistro !
17 If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’
18 Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse .
19 In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them .
20 Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it .
21 Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm .
22 She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics .
23 Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched .
24 So in order to have a reasonable chance of seeing an explosion before your research grant ran out , you would have to find a way to detect any explosions within a distance of about one light-year .
25 If this programme is to make any sense we shall have to find a way to associate numbers with our operators .
26 Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about .
27 The programme should also have included a Bill to deal with the crisis in our prisons , by implementing at least part of Lord Justice Woolf 's report .
28 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
29 I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over !
30 Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance .
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