Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syl had left and Robert gone to bed and the old school friends were talking as they must have talked in their manless dormitory : my mother careful , Lili dashing . |
| 2 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 3 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 4 | Even if we 're not gon na succeed it must have stuck in their throat that there was Jesus lying asleep . |
| 5 | I would have wished that the Liberal Democrats might have remained in their place , especially as their amendment is now before the House for debate . |
| 6 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S return to Test cricket after 22 years was marked by a match as tense and as fluctuating as any they could have played in their former life . |
| 7 | I could have spit in their eyes ! ’ |
| 8 | Japanese car producers may have peaked in their efforts in North America , where they have been forced to raise prices and as a result have lost market share to their Detroit rivals . |
| 9 | Structuralist variants of the Marxist tradition are characteristically informed by ‘ dialectical materialism ’ , however sophisticated they may have become in their onward development . |
| 10 | A Japanese government spokesman claimed that post mortems had revealed parasites in the animals ' ears which may have resulted in their having lost their sense of direction . |
| 11 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 12 | You have to ask yourself how you think you would have done in their place . |
| 13 | Most people would have keyed in their birthday as one of the few six-digit numbers — if you put a zero in front of single figures and for the months up to October and just the last two digits of the year — they can remember apart from their telephone number . |
| 14 | If anyone had told her that her granddaughter was on drugs she would have laughed in their face . |
| 15 | If someone had told her what was going to happen she would have laughed in their face . |
| 16 | If payable it will be assessed on the difference between the purchase price of the new house if this is of an appropriate category and the estimated ( lower ) price they would have paid in their existing location for a broadly equivalent house . |
| 17 | Angela had always preferred old oak and mellow English fruitwoods to mahogany , and was attracted to country furniture because it was the sort of simple , practical furniture that ordinary people would have had in their farmhouses or cottages . |
| 18 | It was cheaply designed , the kind that villagers would have used in their homes . |
| 19 | Information from the French , American and Russian experts who helped set up Iraq 's air defences will have helped in their defeat or circumvention — a jammer which knows how the enemy radar ‘ thinks ’ has a great advantage . |
| 20 | In addition , those general practices wishing to administer their own budgets will have included in their budgets a component to cover certain hospital-based treatments . |