Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 2 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 3 | He could have wound up dead . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the tenant will have carried out substantial improvements , the cost of which will form a large part of the consideration given by him for the grant of the lease . |
| 5 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 6 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 7 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 8 | It might have come in handy frozen , as a weapon in case Pointy-Beard and Shifty-Eyes turned up again , but then I now had Doogie on side . |
| 9 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 10 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 11 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 12 | Almost everybody will have written down negative aspects of stress , because that 's what we think about whenever anybody mentions stress , it 's always bad . |
| 13 | Erm there are days , occasions that could have sparked off major confrontation with the trade unions binding , the members binding themselves together to protect the interests of one of their colleagues . |
| 14 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 15 | Their Kipling characteristics would surely have immediately attracted man 's attention , and he would soon have thought up other ways of increasing the frequency of such useful animals . |
| 16 | This was a visionary proposal which would have brought economic and foreign policy matters within the ambit of the Union decision-making process , would have strengthened the position of the EC Commission , would have phased out national vetoes to which I referred above and have given the EP an enhanced law-making ( as opposed to its largely consultative ) role . |
| 17 | And did you think that Wilko should have brought on Batty to give the midfield a bit more ‘ bite ’ ( in place of Fairclough ? ) ? |
| 18 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 19 | Since by definition jewellery reflects and in a sense embodies the social order , it should hardly be surprising , still less an occasion for despair , that social change as profound as that which marked the transition from an aristocratic to a democratic order should have brought about drastic changes in the uses to which precious substances were put . |
| 20 | Could shock-waves have brought about organic life ? |
| 21 | Indeed , given the fact that they were in the middle of a war the balance of which they were afraid might tip disastrously against them , would they really have opted out other than by a deliberate political decision which would not be taken until well into the future ? |
| 22 | But she knew all about me , and I could n't imagine any way she could have found out other than through you . ’ |
| 23 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 24 | In any event , as a businessman , he could have taken out professional indemnity insurance against the risk without difficulty . |
| 25 | One old lady from Wiltshire told me if the Germans had come they 'd have killed off old people like her . |
| 26 | Maybe Henry would have ended up warped and perverse but his unofficial education among the elite certainly helped him along the way . |
| 27 | Having proved he can handle the tools , Nichetti 's sequel should ideally have toned down flashy self-consciousness and demonstrated his emotional depth . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the Minoans may have singled out particular trees as sacred by the alighting of birds on their branches , since they regarded birds as epiphanies of deities . |
| 29 | She would have burned up extra calories , thus helping to speed her weight loss still more . |
| 30 | No man as prudent as William Titford would have paid out good money for a family grave unless he had some firm evidence that there would eventually be some bodies to put in it . |