Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you ! |
| 2 | When she was hurt she put herself out of reach ; Caro knew that by now , and she would have given a lot to undo the conversation . |
| 3 | Had he not assumed the initiative it was feasible she would have given a reason to keep them out . |
| 4 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 5 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 6 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 7 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 8 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 9 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 10 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 11 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 12 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 13 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 14 | By then North West Water will have completed a pipe to carry Blackpool 's sewage three miles out to sea . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 16 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 17 | Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it . |
| 18 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 19 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 20 | Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched . |
| 21 | The programme should also have included a Bill to deal with the crisis in our prisons , by implementing at least part of Lord Justice Woolf 's report . |
| 22 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 23 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 24 | Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance . |
| 25 | The plan to limit entitlement under the green form scheme may result in detained people who would otherwise have secured a discharge remaining on a section . |
| 26 | Bridget Riley had no intention of either presenting an account of Poussin 's aims and procedures , or of demonstrating Veronese 's debts to his predecessors in Venetian art , as a historian would have felt a duty to do . |
| 27 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 28 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 29 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 30 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |