Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 2 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 3 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 4 | Coward or not , I could have plunged a dagger straight into his black treacherous heart . |
| 5 | ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules . |
| 6 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 8 | They were the stuff of after-dinner conversation when , mellowed by brandy and candlelight , people confessed to fascinations they would n't have broached an hour earlier . |
| 9 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 10 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 11 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 13 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 14 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 15 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 16 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 17 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 18 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 19 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
| 20 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 21 | Yeah they 'd have said a drake otherwise . |
| 22 | I think the one you show may have risen a bit too much … |
| 23 | SHORT of selecting a dead student , the Nobel Prize Committee could hardly have made a choice more calculated to embarrass and enrage the Chinese leadership . |
| 24 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 25 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 26 | Allitt ought to have told her , and she would have told a doctor immediately , Nurse Geeson told day three of the trial at Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that an impact which would have excavated a basin the size of , for example , Mare Imbrium ( Figure 6.1 ( a ) ) which is about 800 km diameter , would initially have produced a bowl about 150 km deep . |
| 28 | Chances galore at both ends could have produced a scoreline usually reserved for end-of-season testimonials . |
| 29 | He also grew increasingly accessible , happy to respond to all but the silliest questions , even if some would have preferred an aloofness closer to Mr Kinnock 's campaign style . |
| 30 | No they must have had a cylinder there already . |