Example sentences of "have [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alfred Snr would have looked at the Quakers ' current predicament without much surprise . |
| 32 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 33 | If the doorsteps could have curled at the edges , they would have done so . |
| 34 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 35 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 36 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 37 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |
| 38 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 39 | Past experience in nursing can also reflect a very hierarchical , even military approach , and some ‘ procedures ’ may have suffered at the hands of obsessional and aggressive teaching . |
| 40 | At the same time it assured that those who , under weaker leadership , might have suffered at the hands of armies , could live in greater security . |
| 41 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 42 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 43 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 44 | you do have to remember at the same time that these documents would be going home and |
| 45 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 46 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 47 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 48 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 49 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 50 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 51 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 52 | Second , executive power will have grown at the expense of parliamentary power . |
| 53 | In the society they inhabit they will have to choose at the university level between physics and hi-tech ; philosophy and literature may be pursued only as hobbies . |
| 54 | Any relief Widnes might have felt at the non-appearance of the injured Meninga after half-time evaporated when Myler departed with a head wound a minute after the restart . |
| 55 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 56 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 57 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 58 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 59 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 60 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |