Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago . |
| 2 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 3 | Right then Shannon would gladly have given her entire make-up kit for a rest , but there was no way she was about to admit any weakness to him , particularly after that crack about her ‘ poor over-used mouth ’ . |
| 4 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 5 | It would have given her infinite satisfaction to watch Adam being frogmarched to the door . |
| 6 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 7 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | Back then , I 'd have given my right arm to have had the opportunity you 've collared . |
| 9 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 10 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 11 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 12 | Security Minister Sir John Wheeler , who has inherited responsibility for this cauldron of hatred , must have revised his initial appraisal that the IRA ‘ has already been defeated ’ . |
| 13 | And afterwards — no-one could possibly have heard her own conversation with Dominic . |
| 14 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 16 | I suggest that , if Big Black existed now , they would inevitably have joined their goofy contemporaries on Geffen . |
| 17 | ‘ She should have developed her own style . ’ |
| 18 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 19 | British freestyle would certainly not have developed its strong backbone without their commitment . |
| 20 | Equally , each organization will have developed its own sense of its tasks mission and role in relation to others . |
| 21 | By the time they reach the secondary school , the majority of children will have developed their own style of handwriting . |
| 22 | Fa 's intelligence might in any circumstances have turned her into a leader , and this too would have broken their social convention : " " " A man for pictures . |
| 23 | She was very kind to the patients , and for that they would gladly have forgiven her personal idiosyncrasies , if they noticed them , which was unlikely . |
| 24 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 25 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 26 | Tutors/Students Packs ( Modular System ) By now all tutors should have received their free copy of the above , with a request from National Office to check the text and to advise of any errors or omissions without delay . |
| 27 | For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light . |
| 28 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 29 | Whatever effects these traumatic events may have had in forming his world view and concerns about military adventurism , they can hardly have limited his intellectual growth . |
| 30 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |