Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence .
2 The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners .
3 Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort .
4 Therefore , it is appropriate to insert such safeguarding words as : So long as the buyer shall remain in possession of the lease and shall not have assigned the same .
5 A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate .
6 In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe .
7 Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites .
8 Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford .
9 Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 .
10 You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° .
11 This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same .
12 It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 .
13 She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available .
14 If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing .
15 I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’
16 After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same .
17 You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming .
18 If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ?
19 Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’
20 ‘ You would have done the same for me , ’ he replied .
21 If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same .
22 Ashdown could have done the same .
23 ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’
24 He would have done the same — in those days .
25 Earlier Mr Garber told the tribunal : ‘ If a male member of staff belonged to the Chippendales and brought in photos I would have done the same . ’
26 We could have done the same with Benjamin .
27 ‘ I 'm sure that in your place I 'd have done the same .
28 ‘ I 'd have done the same .
29 Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey .
30 If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well .
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