Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How could she possibly have foreseen a situation like this ? |
| 32 | No-one could have foreseen an attack from such an unexpected source . |
| 33 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 34 | Detectives are trying to find two men who may have witnessed a murder in a quiet country hamlet . |
| 35 | It has been estimated that an impact which would have excavated a basin the size of , for example , Mare Imbrium ( Figure 6.1 ( a ) ) which is about 800 km diameter , would initially have produced a bowl about 150 km deep . |
| 36 | Queen Philippa died in August 1369 , and the removal of her influence may have hastened a deterioration in his character which became all too apparent in the 1370s . |
| 37 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 38 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 39 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 40 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 41 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 42 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 43 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 44 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 45 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 46 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 47 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 48 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 49 | To obtain this you must have flown a minimum of 35 hours and there are medical exams and ground exams to be taken . |
| 50 | adventure was probably enough that erm I would have flown a kite and one or two things otherwise ! |
| 51 | A mystery man in her life would have explained a lot . |
| 52 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 53 | Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable . |
| 54 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 55 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 56 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 57 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 58 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 59 | This was a most embarrassing situation , one in which Lord Darlington would never have placed an employee . |
| 60 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |