Example sentences of "have [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have sensed that war was inevitable , as Birtwistle and myself had two feverish years in ‘ 38/'39 , when we made many hard ( in those days ) ascents , including a few pioneering routes . |
| 2 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |
| 3 | ‘ And here lies Aldhelm , who could have given that brother a face and a name , beyond any question . |
| 4 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 5 | ‘ Still , ’ he added , ‘ you 'll have heard that kind of compliment often enough , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 6 | But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 . |
| 7 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 8 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 9 | So far we have considered how natural language might have developed that complexity which sets it off so dramatically from the signalling systems of other species . |
| 10 | " Would he have told you the name of one of his attackers , and might you have recognized that name … ? " |
| 11 | I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 13 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 14 | For instance , you could have treated that monkey yourself if it had been brought into your surgery . |
| 15 | Mota would have won that race by well over half-an-hour . |
| 16 | They might have added that government 's encouragement of home ownership , already alluded to , had reinforced the need for credit . |
| 17 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 18 | None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 20 | A few nights later she went with Maureen to Benediction , and as she glanced at her sister , deep in prayer , Anne was conscious of how much Maureen 's faith meant to her , and how her own well-meant interference might have severed that lifeline for her beloved sister . |
| 21 | ‘ How could I have let that bastard make love to me ? ’ she demanded violently . |
| 22 | I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him . |
| 23 | In this instance there 's nothing er and er justice Bingham er did say specifically that he was n't pursuing er the matter of er audit , it was n't his responsibility er the government should certainly have repaired that omission by pursuing it themselves , by inquiring er into er what went wrong . |
| 24 | Mary must have forgotten that Mum could n't write . |
| 25 | If it is finding a good speech to interest and amuse the audience , then with preparation you should have solved that problem already . |
| 26 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 27 | Many of Europe 's finance ministers and central-bank governors will have enjoyed that retraction — for that is what it was . |
| 28 | I could have done that back in the States . ’ |
| 29 | If I 'd known you was coming I would have done that bit of chicken . |
| 30 | Do you feel that anybody could have done that job ? |