Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at such a moment as that there were eagles in other parts of the Cages who seemed not to have noticed what had happened . |
| 2 | Grunte , who affected never to have sought office — ‘ too many people dependent on me , dear boy , wheels of commerce and all that ’ — would have been only too delighted to accept the seals of any office . |
| 3 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 4 | The statistics show four men who worked there have died of prostate cancer . |
| 5 | Perhaps such a range of activities seemed to endanger his chances of getting a degree but those who thought so had underestimated the strength of his neurotic energy . |
| 6 | The welfare state decades of 1952-1972 saw the rise of two of Britain 's greatest ever amateur and professional boxers — Dick McTaggart and Ken Buchanan , who did not have deprived childhoods despite their working-class origins . |
| 7 | Whilst this may look like easy fun for those who did not have to cope with the impossible timetables and endless pressures , the reason for criticism is not to deride the working groups but to understand in concrete terms the limitations of the system now in operation . |
| 8 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 9 | By the time I had had breakfast and done the morning 's chores it was after eleven and , though the rain was letting up , it was still wet enough to keep anyone indoors who did n't have to go out . |
| 10 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 11 | This surprised Dairyman Crick , who appeared never to have thought of milk as a drink . |
| 12 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 13 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |