Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 2 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 3 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 5 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 6 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 7 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 8 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 9 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |
| 10 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 11 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 12 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 13 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 14 | The car , which could have raced as early as May , will be fully prepared for action with Prost behind the wheel next season . |
| 15 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 16 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 17 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 18 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 19 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 20 | Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust . |
| 21 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 22 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 23 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
| 24 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |