Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I recognized MacQuillan and he might have sensed me looking , he did n't glance up at me . |
| 2 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 3 | I found the word tumour chilling , and he must have sensed it . |
| 4 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe we should have jumped him , then perhaps you could have injected him with something . ’ |
| 6 | I sent off for mine last week — I 'm sort of hoping that they wo n't have posted them yet so it may be worth ringing up to try and cancel . |
| 7 | I told him I believed him and that it would be such a dirty trick not to post the letter that I was sure he must have posted it . |
| 8 | The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces . |
| 9 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 10 | You 'd have highlighted it and sent it back . |
| 11 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 12 | Mother would have given me a cuddle , and she was n't given to cuddles . |
| 13 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 14 | Certainly , the illness would have given me plenty of opportunities to make strings of fireworks fizzle and explode in bright , whirling wheels of sulphurous pain in and behind Miller 's word-jellied eyeballs . |
| 15 | And you could have told the girl on switchboard to remind me — she 'd have given me the message , I assure you . ’ |
| 16 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 17 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 18 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 19 | Jackson , who failed in the Olympics , said : ‘ I had to win , or the rest of the boys would have given me stick , particularly Linford . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 21 | And the inter-island ship , the Nanasipau'u , which might have given me a lift up north , chose to ride out the wind in the lee of the island , unwisely put down both anchors , promptly snapped both chains and then drifted helplessly out to sea . |
| 22 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 23 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 24 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 25 | Liz would have given me a thermos and a book . |
| 26 | Well if it 's something plus three , then you must have given me two . |
| 27 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 28 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 29 | He would have given me an introduction to Paul Valéry as well , except that he was out of Paris . |
| 30 | That would have given me power over him . ) |