Example sentences of "have [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 2 | And anyway , I 'll have to go next door to take over from Arthur if my father does n't get back in time . ’ |
| 3 | Talus , the little Texas company with the order for 2,500 NeXT workstations from Russian president Boris Yeltsin ( UX No 381 ) , says the way the order 's written it does n't have to provide NeXT machines , merely computers running NeXTStep : it estimates the value of the order at $25m , but not in cold cash . |
| 4 | By rights Oxford should have won last night … |
| 5 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |
| 6 | I could have looked last night , if I 'd thought . |
| 7 | Habitual attendees of Unix events would have enjoyed last week 's UK Computer Measurement Group conference and exhibition , held at the Brighton Metropole . |
| 8 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 9 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 10 | Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend . |
| 11 | He could have quit last Wednesday when the party 's national executive rejected by a 21-3 vote his demands for a referendum and a rethink on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 12 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And how much did you have to drink last night ? ’ |
| 14 | Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime . |
| 15 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 16 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 17 | You could n't have missed last year 's winner that way . |
| 18 | Besides , he would have seen last night as a meeting between two sides to an argument . |
| 19 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 20 | It is thus false that if certain other things had happened , although we got yesterday , we would still have got last night . |
| 21 | If or since we had the solar conditions , even if certain other things had happened , we would still have got last night . |
| 22 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 23 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 24 | She must have known last night , while constructing this list . |
| 25 | No I 'll have to phone first Dawson 's on the same day , have a look . |
| 26 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 27 | Atherton might have gone first ball , lbw , but somehow survived , only to be hit on the helmet as he became airborne against Waqar . |
| 28 | According to the opinion polls , 60% of the electorate thinks he should have gone last August . |
| 29 | It seems that financial prudence would have led third parties to ensure that the manager was acting on behalf of the Council , whose credibility and creditworthiness rested upon its character as an international organisation of member States . |
| 30 | ‘ The trouble is , ’ she said , ‘ that you are inevitably in the position of people being able to say , ‘ It 's all right for you , you do n't have to live next door to those punks and weirdos . ’ |