Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 2 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 3 | The seller does not have to agree to this and if he does , that will not normally affect the operation of section 20 . |
| 4 | I ca n't play that sort of trick on him — besides , I 'd only have to agree to another date . ’ |
| 5 | They will have to agree on some type of standard . |
| 6 | It was not an answer he would have given to many people , but he looked on Edna as an equal . |
| 7 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 8 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 9 | And what would n't one have given in those distant days for a ball-point pen ! |
| 10 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 11 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 12 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 13 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 14 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 15 | ‘ You might have heard of this — potheen ! ’ he said with a smile on his return . |
| 16 | Few borrowers will have heard of this , perhaps because there are so many names : Mortgage Indemnity Guarantee ( MIG ) and Mortgage Indemnity Premium are two common versions . |
| 17 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 18 | Must have heard about that from Alan . |
| 19 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 20 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 21 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 22 | Oh , lordy , lordy , she must have heard from that wretched Mrs Elswick ! |
| 23 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 24 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 25 | How far must he have flown in each hour ? |
| 26 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 27 | Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ? |
| 28 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 29 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 30 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |