Example sentences of "have [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have sensed that war was inevitable , as Birtwistle and myself had two feverish years in ‘ 38/'39 , when we made many hard ( in those days ) ascents , including a few pioneering routes . |
| 2 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 3 | On the basis of this argument , however , were Labour to win the next election on the numerical strength of MPs returned from Scotland , he would then have to agree that Labour have no mandate in England ! |
| 4 | Those kids we saw have assassinated all hope . |
| 5 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 6 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |
| 7 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 8 | ‘ And here lies Aldhelm , who could have given that brother a face and a name , beyond any question . |
| 9 | The dinner would have given many motoring journalists their first chance to see the new Mondeo model , which will replace the Sierra . |
| 10 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 11 | Whilst Britain was genuinely concerned about honouring its debts there was a high mindedness about it which shut out any consideration of alternatives which , by reducing the obligation to maintain the value of sterling , would have given more scope for domestic planning . |
| 12 | We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people . |
| 13 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 14 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 15 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 16 | I would have revised all afternoon . |
| 17 | ‘ Still , ’ he added , ‘ you 'll have heard that kind of compliment often enough , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 18 | Anyone who has tuned into motor racing on the television will have heard this effect . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 20 | The use of the same subjects both when shadowing was and was not involved may also have altered this result by accounting for any individual anomalies . |
| 21 | But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 . |
| 22 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 23 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 24 | There was little doubt that there were men who were as eligible , whose names would have aroused less comment . |
| 25 | Individuals in one group in the morning may have joined another group some 10 kilometres ( 7 miles ) distant by the afternoon or next day . |
| 26 | She 'd have to lose some weight , of course , and then maybe buy some new sexy underwear … |
| 27 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 28 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 30 | So what we 've done we thought we 're gon na have to replicate that hearth . |