Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Our shuttering had been fabricated in the workshop , complete with risers reinforced with some 75 × 50mm timber , but we could have made it up on site .
32 I could have made a real fortune becoming Mr Vietnam , I could have hit the lecture circuit , I could have spun it out into a fabulous little industry , but that 's not interesting .
33 Or we could have rounded it up from 913.5 metres .
34 Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance .
35 I WATCHED the General Synod debate on the ordination of women priests with my jaw dropped so low that my knee could have nudged it back into place .
36 With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post .
37 wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then .
38 One biggish living room and a little back kitchen with no water and no sanitation and if you wanted to dispose of your water you 'd have to take it out on the roadside and chuck it down the main drain .
39 I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year .
40 doll I 'm afraid I 'd have to give it back to them .
41 Wish I 'd have took it up in August .
42 Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom .
43 He 'd have to stick it out until then .
44 If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy .
45 Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things .
46 If Philip had had any sense he 'd have brought it down with him , that and the other stuff .
47 We 'd go barefoot in the fields and play fairies , and horses and keepers : the horse would have to step in as many cow shits as possible and the keeper would have to clean it up from between their toes .
48 The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change .
49 If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’
50 The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 .
51 And I thought he 'd have given it in or something , well Mrs would have took it off of her children .
52 Do you think it 's at all possible that anybody who has this number , like presumably your agent has it or friends have it , is it at all possible anyone would have given it out to somebody ?
53 At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer .
54 It 's such a bizarre thing , sliding an object over guitar strings — I mean , who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ?
55 Who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ? ’
56 Next week , she would have talked it through with three or four different people .
57 The old lady nodded wisely : ‘ I thought so … scientists would have tried it out on rats first . ’
58 ‘ I saw you struggling with it ; you should have left it in the Range Rover — I would have lifted it out for you . ’
59 His best friend was due for a bad let-down , and it was he who would have to spell it out for him .
60 If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling .
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