Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 2 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 3 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |
| 4 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 5 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
| 6 | He might as well have tried to hit a flitting moonshadow . |
| 7 | This user capacity would previously have entailed installing a top-of-the-range IPX 32 switch — with a commensurate increase in price per port . |
| 8 | It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled . |