Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | It could be resold at the market price less 10% selling expenses , or retained for use later in another new product to be manufactured by the company , by which time it is expected that the market price will have fallen by about 25% . |
| 3 | The monastery may have been sacked by Vikings or it may have fallen down through neglect , but either way it needed reviving . |
| 4 | The Lane must have fallen out of use in this stretch within living memory . |
| 5 | I ca n't be sure , because if lack of oxygen was affecting me , I would have blacked out at lot sooner , and I remember the whole episode ’ . |
| 6 | I could have wound up in Wiesbaden for all I knew . |
| 7 | He might have sat down with Pascoe and eaten the food and drunk the wine with her murder still at his fingertips . |
| 8 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 9 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 10 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 11 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 12 | While they might have looked out of place next to the modern heavy metal , they are vying for a lucrative market . |
| 13 | They might have caught up with X. Ray by now ; Martinho might have done away with himself . |
| 14 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 15 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 16 | Gladstone would have come over from Hawarden , not far away . |
| 17 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 18 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 19 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 20 | If the play were left at that , then , Brutus would have come out on top , but since Mark Antony was left to talk , his extremely clever speech then persuaded the crowd into thinking his way , as we shall see now . |
| 21 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 22 | I knew too that if Jerry had ever behaved as I did , taking on more than he could chew , then I too would have responded in like manner . |
| 23 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 24 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
| 25 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you might have moved on to Prague . |
| 27 | Police hunting a man who raped a woman at Swindon college have widened their search because they believe he may have moved out of town . |
| 28 | ‘ And a few generations later , ’ Haverford went jotting on , ‘ she must have turned up as Susanna in Figaro . |
| 29 | It was typical of the Lang Hancock style that he should have turned up in town with his young woman , caring little for the opinion of the climbers . |
| 30 | Had Katherine been able to forget the fear her mother instilled in her , she would have wept out of homesickness . |