Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have sensed that something was wrong , but he saw the thin trail of smoke above the trees and it hardly registered in his mind . |
| 2 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 3 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 4 | She knows that and the statistics are at least available from the Library but not with the precision that she could have given if she had chosen to give them to the House . |
| 5 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 6 | He could not have foreseen that it would be Mozart , 24 years his junior , who would be dead before the year 's end . |
| 7 | Freud may not have foreseen that it would be a difficult task for parents to consciously recognize infantile sexuality without being seduced into the role of a participant . |
| 8 | And though he more than once declared suicide a selfish act , he must also have foreseen that there are certain states of mind in which sensitive consideration of others becomes impossible . |
| 9 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 10 | So far , readers may have gathered that I am disenchanted with the credit scene in the UK . |
| 11 | By now you will have gathered that our famous range of 3,000 carpet options is just part of the Allied home furnishing collection . |
| 12 | You may have heard that we have initiated a ‘ Transport and the Environment ’ working party , under Stuart Cole 's chairmanship , to develop a suitable transport strategy for Wales . |
| 13 | Now you 'll have heard that we painted the toilet block , and it does look very smart . |
| 14 | Erm you may have heard that we 've grown big by being recommended . |
| 15 | You 'll have heard that they lifted the army off the beaches at Dunkirk . |
| 16 | He must have heard that I 'd come back from Ireland . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd have heard if our plane had crashed . |
| 18 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 19 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 20 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 21 | Er we was on the beach , you know sea front , he 'd er gathered some er brands of seaweed for making what they call Irish moss , Caragium And that would give you a good think emulsion , you see then in the , what was the cod season , cod fishing , you 'd go down to the harbour where the er fishing boat came in and where they were cleaning , and you 'd get the boss would have arranged that you get the cod 's livers . |
| 22 | I should have explained that she was an intelligent woman . |
| 23 | The final paragraph should have explained that our objection to the proposal to put steps down if the path slipped due to the retaining wall collapsing was that a ) steps would be dangerous for the many elderly people who used the footpath ; b ) it would mean the council cutting into our upper bank and undermining our house garden wall and c ) the council should consider the alternative access to the path offered by our neighbour , Mr M Jones if they did not intend to preserve the present route . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman may already have guessed that we have been pressing others to play their part in the important work in which the United Nations is engaged . |
| 25 | And who , sitting in the stalls next to John Hinckley at a matinee of Taxi Driver , would have guessed that their neighbour 's conclusion from watching the film was that , in order to prove his love for Jodie Foster , he must go out and shoot Ronald Reagan ? |
| 26 | And even though it was generally accepted that they , along with the better known chimps of East Africa , were our closest relatives , few would have guessed that their relationships would be , well , so very human . |
| 27 | In public he was urbane , and no one could have guessed that their presence here together was dictated by anything other than professional considerations . |
| 28 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 29 | Marie thought of her own mother with her frumpy clothes and ageing , lined face : no one would have guessed that she was only forty-two . |
| 30 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |