Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair proportionality would have given it 19 or 20 seats : it actually won 14 . |
| 2 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 3 | You could have heard it all , if you 'd had the ears . |
| 4 | I supposed that he must have heard it all before , although I did n't think he was ever bored by Lili . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , a member of the tournament committee heard this picturesque statement of Jack 's intentions — not difficult , you could probably have heard it twenty miles away at the PGA headquarters — and of course the stockbroker was a close friend of the sponsor . |
| 6 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One thing is for sure I will have sorted it all out before the start of the new season . ’ |
| 8 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 9 | Yet there must have been a point at which it had clearly failed as a general expedient , and some may always have considered it shameful . |
| 10 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 11 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 12 | John Crabb would have captained it all , had he not been captured ; but other shipmen were eager to lead . |
| 13 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 14 | Donna ( 5.0 ) interrupted saying ‘ You should have done it bigger [ for longer ] like me . |
| 15 | I would have done it all again . |
| 16 | Oh you should have done it all . |
| 17 | ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’ |
| 18 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 19 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 20 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 21 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 22 | could have done it different , Frank and I |
| 23 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 24 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’ |
| 25 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . |
| 26 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 27 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You should have said it all before . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd rather have said it all to his face ! |
| 30 | I could not have said it better or more concisely . |