Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [modal v] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept them would have meant a complete recantation of all his actions over the past five years . |
| 2 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 3 | If Wandsworth Council had succeeded it would have set a precedent for councils to take the NASUWT to court . |
| 4 | I 'd have done I 'd have done a quick , a little man carrying a bag with dollars |
| 5 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 6 | Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke . |
| 7 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 8 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 9 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 10 | ‘ But I was surprised at her type ; you would think she could have got a job , a decent one somewhere . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 12 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 13 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
| 14 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 15 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |
| 16 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 18 | Er yes , I s suspect they must have paid a lot of money to have that done too . |
| 19 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
| 20 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |
| 21 | It is thought he might have hitched a lift and motorists who saw him have been asked to come forward . |
| 22 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 23 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 24 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 25 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 26 | ‘ I know you would have signed a civil agreement if you 'd thought of it . |
| 27 | we know he must have had a father , from our knowledge of the world , but we did not know what he was . |
| 28 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 29 | I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride . |
| 30 | Because I suppose I must have appeared a bit untrustworthy , thought Caspar , what with working for the Gruagach and everything . |