Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia .
2 I should never have given him them keys … . ’
3 ‘ I must have given it them ? ’
4 And er we 'll have given it him I mean on his on his total cost he 'll be down .
5 Why could he not have foreseen what we see now ?
6 Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ .
7 You should have heard what they were doing to him .
8 Otherwise we 'd have heard what they were saying .
9 Please do n't let him have heard what we were saying earlier , she begged inwardly .
10 The hon. Lady may not have heard what I said about Scottish Homes .
11 I do not have any comment to make on that ship at the moment , but the hon. Gentleman will have heard what I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth ( Mr. Trotter ) about the aviation support ship , for which Swan 's is obviously one of the real contenders .
12 Erm to deal with Mr 's point about denying a problem of affordable housing , I think er he must n't have heard what I said properly , because I 've never sought to deny that there 's a ho a problem of access to housing .
13 Well , you should have heard what he said about you , first time we met .
14 You should you should have have heard her it was terrible I thought oh my God he 's he 's going to cut the atmosphere like a knife in her today .
15 When I realized that Hilda 's was more than a normal crush , I should have stopped it I suppose .
16 The recession that we 've gone through in materials and elsewhere in the economy has taught us , or should have taught us I believe , a very clear lesson and that is that we must end the situation that 's in the building materials industry where our members rely for a reasonable standard of living on bonus earnings the problem being of course that as soon as the recession starts to bite , then the bonus pay becomes very vulnerable to attack and reduction by the employers .
17 If he did as you say , he would have calculated what she would do : when he did n't go in to her and hold her hand she would go and tap on his door , because he never entered the house without visiting her , wherever she was .
18 What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police .
19 because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else
20 The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’
21 PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew .
22 If he had been crap , it would n't have mattered who he knew .
23 It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done .
24 They could have done what we suggested .
25 In the opinion of many of the villagers , and naturally of all those who 'd had relatives massacred in the German reprisal , he should have done what they ordered .
26 I told the police at the time that he could not have done what they said he had . ’
27 After all , what other personal assistant would have done what she had ?
28 The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it .
29 She did not bother to ask herself whether Holly would have done what she was being asked to do , or whether it was sensible to care what Holly thought .
30 Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value .
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