Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 32 | More hurt , bewildered and confused than she would ever have believed possible such a short time ago , she walked into the dark cottage and up to bed . |
| 33 | His gratitude — and the kiss — meant more to her than she would ever have admitted to anyone . |
| 34 | He observed that his authority and influence were likely to have put her still more off her guard than she would naturally have been from her age and inexperience ; that a fear and awe of the prisoner might check her resistance … ’ |
| 35 | Emily climbed down from the cab and stood looking uncertainly around her , World 's End was a far worse place than she could ever have imagined . |
| 36 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |
| 37 | Now most of her contacts were out-of-town businessmen , far more scared of comebacks than she 'd ever have to be . |
| 38 | Do n't go feeling sorry for him : he has more power than you 'll ever have . |
| 39 | And perhaps our marriage did n't last long , but I had more of him than you 'll ever have . |
| 40 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 41 | There is plenty of strategy here , but more heart and pain than you could possibly have room for . |
| 42 | it 's nineteen forty eight , so she may well have married and changed her name . |
| 43 | You could pull that loose too , so you 'll just have to be patient and lie still for now . |
| 44 | I do n't know who you belong to , Leonora , but no one 's anxious about you yet , obviously , so you 'll just have to be patient . ’ |
| 45 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 46 | ‘ Mrs Porter uses it or this small room off it , just here , as a sitting-room occasionally , but she does n't live in , so you would virtually have the run of this part of the house . ’ |
| 47 | Sometimes a more matronly dame may preside at a table whereon is a large basin of curds , jugs of cream , a number of strong dessert-plates and horn spoons , and a goodly array of oaten cakes ; so you may thus have curds and cream in the land of brown heath — and if lovely scenery lends a zest to wholesome fare , you should not fail to patronize this vendor of good things . |
| 48 | It is very difficult to do this without producing a ‘ blurred-vision ’ effect in the resist — so you may well have to scrap that attempt , recoat the board with resist and start all over again . |
| 49 | Stand up boards and backs are also available and are particularly useful for Membership notices , so you can always have one on display . |
| 50 | If you came to this country after 1948 as an adult , your working life still started at 16 , so you will probably have a reduced pension . |
| 51 | But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum . |
| 52 | By definition , we have not had the range of experiences which occur in old age , although we may well have some relevant personal knowledge upon which to draw . |
| 53 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 54 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 55 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 56 | The additional strain may in the end be more rewarding , more life-enhancing than one would ever have felt possible . |
| 57 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 58 | I think this made all of us more aware of germs than we would otherwise have been . |
| 59 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 60 | So our view suddenly lurches : the famous seduction would have been even more cramped , and even less romantic , than we might previously have assumed . |