Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 2 | Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone . |
| 3 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 4 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 5 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 6 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 7 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 8 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 9 | Even sacks with adjustable back lengths have their limits and people of above or below average height will have to shop around a little more carefully before finding the pack that 's just right for them . |
| 10 | Though she had been angry with fitzAlan , she would not have blurted out the bare facts to just anyone . |
| 11 | He said Mr Smith 's statement meant that in the first full two years of a Labour Government , they would have to borrow around an extra £9.5 billion . |
| 12 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 13 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 14 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 15 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 16 | and then we 'll have to cancel out the garage , so do n't know how much that 's gon na be . |
| 17 | Breakfast Car will probably have to go up a grade and go to slightly posher places . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , I think you 'll have to go round a bit . |
| 19 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have to go down the off-licence . ’ |
| 21 | No , oh I know what I never got that ai n't finished I 'll have to go down the shops , I might go down |
| 22 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 23 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
| 24 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 25 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 26 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 27 | ‘ Surely someone should have checked out the complaints more carefully . ’ |
| 28 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 29 | If this does not work , you will have to drain down the pipe and remove the fitting . |
| 30 | Councils will have to carry out an annual survey of customer satisfaction , published just before local election . |