Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 2 | The line he should have received next was , ‘ Why not ? |
| 3 | It was interesting in the situation that he and Sam Torrance found themselves , as after Sam had hit his chip past and had the honour Gordon could have putted first . |
| 4 | By rights Oxford should have won last night … |
| 5 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |
| 6 | But she would have telephoned first . |
| 7 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 8 | ‘ We should have looked first ! ’ he declared abjectly when all they could see of the scene below and beyond was of rooftops and forest shrouded in mist and rain . |
| 9 | I could have looked last night , if I 'd thought . |
| 10 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 11 | One might reasonably have expected that the " building " would have come first and then the things it housed . |
| 12 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 13 | Students at Rachel 's oxford college St Hilda 's say the family 's feelings should have come first . |
| 14 | Even if a British judge had travelled abroad , Cheltenham may still have come second . |
| 15 | So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast . |
| 16 | ours and so erm so they , so we would have come second had we had an , had we had an audience , I mean that 's the ridiculous thing , it 's the content , nothing to do with what , you know , the environment is it ? |
| 17 | Habitual attendees of Unix events would have enjoyed last week 's UK Computer Measurement Group conference and exhibition , held at the Brighton Metropole . |
| 18 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 19 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 20 | He could have quit last Wednesday when the party 's national executive rejected by a 21-3 vote his demands for a referendum and a rethink on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 21 | Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend . |
| 22 | If we keep the speed fixed now we have Do the one I should have done first . |
| 23 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought you 'd have phoned first , ’ she yawned . |
| 25 | Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime . |
| 26 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 27 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 28 | You could n't have missed last year 's winner that way . |
| 29 | Besides , he would have seen last night as a meeting between two sides to an argument . |
| 30 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |