Example sentences of "have do [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 32 | like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation |
| 33 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 34 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 35 | " Nobody could have done more than you , " I said . |
| 36 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 37 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 38 | So what would a a riveter have done then once they were once their job was completed they were put on the the on the street basically ? |
| 39 | I 'll have these Freshers all the way down the side near that erm middle wall , thought to myself wonder what I could have done there that will look pretty |
| 40 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 41 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 42 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 43 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 44 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 45 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 46 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 47 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 48 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 49 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 50 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 51 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 52 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 53 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 54 | QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 . |
| 55 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 56 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 57 | In Roman times the cities and major towns certainly did , and on a local scale many villas must have done so as well . |
| 58 | Numerous others must have done so as well . |
| 59 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 60 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |