Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 2 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 3 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 4 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 5 | West Yorkshire 's chief probation officer said : ‘ The baffling thing is , even with hindsight , we are still left wondering what more we could have done to stop this killing ’ . |
| 6 | But staff at Stoke Mandeville believe there was nothing they could have done to prevent this incident … |
| 7 | It is highly unlikely that the British government would have agreed to exchange this nobleman , an amiable figure of no political importance , for its American prisoners but at around 11 am on 23 April 1778 , John Paul led his little force of a dozen armed sailors through the garden of the mansion . |
| 8 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 9 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 10 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 11 | The Marshal would have liked to turn this problem over to the Captain who could have applied some brains to it . |
| 12 | If there are only one or two sedimentological theses in one year , the list compiler may have chosen to combine this category with that for stratigraphy . |