Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course .
2 A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama .
3 In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both .
4 The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 .
5 Usually it is reasonable to presume that ( if the parties had considered the eventuality that the contract would become impossible or illegal to perform ) , they would have intended all further performance to be excused .
6 Indeed , there is no doubt that with appropriate cueing subjects could have recalled considerably more information about many aspects of the drive .
7 Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed .
8 I always had the feeling that if I had n't , she would have sat there all night .
9 I could not have sat there all night .
10 But Dawn , you should have carried on that course man .
11 Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons .
12 After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk .
13 By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’
14 Had White and Green merged , the joint ‘ Lime ’ party 's 30 votes would have earned only one seat .
15 Alastair was a tall , handsome man , who would have looked very good striding over the heather in a kilt .
16 ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about .
17 And I think I will have come out that way on the thing .
18 Up until then the labouring people may have enjoyed only basic material fare , " but most of them were able to support their families in an average year without having to resort to the parish for relief " .
19 But he must have endured more mental turmoil as his rookie replacement lit up White Hart Lane .
20 It was widely felt that Kohl should have visited both this site and other scenes where anti-foreigner and anti-Semitic attacks had taken place .
21 The defection of the Nevilles could have done considerably more damage to the royal affinity which had developed in the north in the 1460s .
22 The defection of the Nevilles could have done considerably more damage to the royal affinity which had developed in the north in the 1460s .
23 No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad .
24 Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay .
25 Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City .
26 Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant .
27 Yet they could have missed out last season if the third team had been involved in play-offs . ’
28 You will have seen how that road surface can become soft and sticky in extreme heat .
29 I 'm running back to my office to make all the phone calls I should have made already this morning ; Summerchild is running just in front of me , a pace and a half behind Serafin , trying to catch the various pearls now flying back unrecorded over her hurrying shoulder .
30 My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties .
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