Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | The plan to limit entitlement under the green form scheme may result in detained people who would otherwise have secured a discharge remaining on a section . |
| 5 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 6 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 7 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 8 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 9 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 10 | You must have opened a file using OPENOUT , OPENIN or OPENUP before you use this statement . |
| 11 | Before you use this statement , you must have opened a file using OPENOUT or OPENUP . |
| 12 | From the length of it , she must have had a truck waiting outside the check-out . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
| 14 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
| 15 | As far as the second witness was concerned , the appeal court had reached the view that his new evidence would not have had a material bearing on the jury 's assessment of Leighton 's credibility . |
| 16 | Lavenham , which must have had a population approaching 1,000 and ranked as one of the dozen or so richest towns in the kingdom , went into decline following the death of the great clothier Thomas Spring in 1523 . |
| 17 | I think Paul Reaney would have had a job settling in to the defence last year . |
| 18 | At least that way I would n't have got a note thanking me for a ‘ wonderful evening ’ that never happened . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd have to have a sensor going down the corridor and one in the back because they 'd come in the back , they would n't come through the |
| 21 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 22 | But most would have sent a holidaymaker scurrying for his siesta . |
| 23 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 24 | If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing . |