Example sentences of "to have [verb] [det] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was not just her station in life which precluded choice but life itself and she felt foolish not to have realised this long ago .
2 But the Supreme Soviet deputies rejected calls from hardliners to try to remove the 62-year-old president from office immediately and observers said Mr Yeltsin appeared to have won this round in his battle with the conservative-dominated parliament .
3 ‘ He 's going to have to answer some pretty tough questions . ’
4 Neither gave an inch all afternoon simply because it would have been an insult to have done any differently .
5 PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet .
6 In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished .
7 We always used to have to walk all up
8 If he was known to have had many more than one girlfriend , why was n't she one of them ?
9 I mean this talks about what this particular booklet does , and and why we 're saying , it would have been useful to have had this probably for our last meeting really .
10 I 'd never want to have to do that again .
11 ‘ Sorry , you 're going to have to put those away again .
12 The fact that most of the players in the Olympic match were from England seems to have borne this out , and our Blundellian correspondent sadly reflects : ‘ A cricketer in France is a stranger in a strange land looked upon with mingled awe and contempt by the average Frenchman . ’
13 He ought to have known that anyway . ’
14 I 'm sorry to have brought this down to !
15 And they already seem to have found some highly respectable regulars .
16 ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret .
17 Once it had been the God who was supposed to have asked that too familiar question .
18 I take this to mean that price leadership or parallel pricing are not in themselves regarded as anti-competitive : the firms would have to have followed some specifically anti-competitive course of conduct , for example exclusive dealing or discriminatory discounting , to fall foul of the law .
19 The Americans seem now to have taken this aboard .
20 The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north .
21 ‘ They must have been pushed to have put that in ! ’ she told him scornfully , although she was secretly pleased to see that the camera had been kind to her .
22 There are other things that emerge from evaluation that perhaps suggest that at least , not necessarily universally , but for that particular school , with those particular children , with those particular aims , if they want to achieve what they 're trying to achieve , then they 're going to have to make some rather more or at least some of the people are going to have to make some rather more fundamental changes in the way that they , say , handle children in the classroom , than might otherwise be the case .
23 There are other things that emerge from evaluation that perhaps suggest that at least , not necessarily universally , but for that particular school , with those particular children , with those particular aims , if they want to achieve what they 're trying to achieve , then they 're going to have to make some rather more or at least some of the people are going to have to make some rather more fundamental changes in the way that they , say , handle children in the classroom , than might otherwise be the case .
24 Ramsay had hoped not to have to bring this forward if it could be avoided .
25 I remember cutting out when you used to have to cut all down your rolls of wallpaper .
26 Skerne is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small village and seems to have changed little ever since !
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