Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent off for mine last week — I 'm sort of hoping that they wo n't have posted them yet so it may be worth ringing up to try and cancel . |
| 2 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 3 | He was guessing , but my face must have given me away . ’ |
| 4 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 5 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 6 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you should have given yourself longer . ’ |
| 8 | You must have given yourself away somehow . |
| 9 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 10 | ‘ But there was nothing untoward going on that could have given anyone any offence . ’ |
| 11 | I think a lot of er a lot of wives may not have given you as much information as Maggie did . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 14 | Totally unexpected because frankly no government , no civil service would have given us as much money for residential places as they did if they 'd known . |
| 15 | If we 'd have started off with this it would have given us twice what we got . |
| 16 | Sorry that was squared yeah so the differential of that would 've given us twice er would have given us twice that . |
| 17 | ‘ I would have given anything right then . ’ |
| 18 | She must have given it straight to Charles . ’ |
| 19 | That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin . |
| 20 | Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection . |
| 21 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |
| 22 | ‘ You must have hated me too ! ’ she flared , caught , and angry enough to show her resentment , past and present . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 24 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 25 | He thinks he was ‘ making it up ’ , but ‘ may have heard it long ago ’ . |
| 26 | Her eyes flew wide open , the voice in her mind so clear that she felt sure he must have heard it too . |
| 27 | If anything could have frightened us away from the proposition it would have been the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to advance a sensible argument on anything at all . |
| 28 | But it was not a great deceit , after all , and perhaps one day she might be able to explain it to them , and apologise , but for the present matters could not have arranged themselves much better . |
| 29 | I think perhaps if you could have arranged her so that er this foot somehow was resting down here , well it might have been better . |
| 30 | You might have arranged it better . |