Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material . |
| 2 | ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London . |
| 3 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 4 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 5 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 6 | ‘ I doubt if you 'll have heard of a Romany having a magistrate removed from office either , Mr Peck , but make one arrest here and you 're very likely to be the first . ’ |
| 7 | You may have heard of a technique called ‘ path analysis ’ and have wondered if it referred to the methods discussed in this chapter . |
| 8 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 9 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |
| 10 | What about which year joined as alternative to years of Membership , since some may have joined as an Associate ? |
| 11 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 12 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 13 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 14 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 15 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 16 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 17 | Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts . |
| 18 | I guess they may have fallen off a lorry ? |
| 19 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 20 | Er , that could have fallen off a car cos it was a big piece and there was n't anywhe anywhere else . |
| 21 | The village of St Anton could have fallen off a picture post card : it 's that pretty ! |
| 22 | On the other hand , it is extremely useful to have universities , polys and colleges compared on an equal basis , particularly as in these days of cutbacks many , who in earlier years could have relied on a university place , may have to hedge their bets by applying to polys too . |
| 23 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 24 | The large temples , Knossos , Phaistos , Zakro and Mallia , must have depended on an income of agricultural produce from fairly extensive rural hinterlands , from many villages , many estates . |
| 25 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 26 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 27 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 28 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |
| 29 | Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche . |
| 30 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |