Example sentences of "have do [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 2 | " Nobody could have done more than you , " I said . |
| 3 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 4 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 5 | So what would a a riveter have done then once they were once their job was completed they were put on the the on the street basically ? |
| 6 | I 'll have these Freshers all the way down the side near that erm middle wall , thought to myself wonder what I could have done there that will look pretty |
| 7 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 8 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 9 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 10 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 11 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 12 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 13 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 14 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 15 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 16 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 17 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 18 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 19 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 20 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 21 | QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 . |
| 22 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 23 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 24 | In Roman times the cities and major towns certainly did , and on a local scale many villas must have done so as well . |
| 25 | Numerous others must have done so as well . |
| 26 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 27 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 28 | A variation order or some other delay caused by the client occurs at a time which does not cause additional delay or cost but which would have done so if the contractor had not already been behind schedule . |
| 29 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 30 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |