Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a romantic , not an objective , conception of history ; Alexander the Great was foremost among my heroes , Montrose was the leader I would most gladly have followed , John Knox was my particular aversion . |
| 2 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 3 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 4 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 5 | Were it not fur her , I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair . |
| 6 | Likewise , if the explosion occurred early enough in the Solar System 's history , the shell of gases could long since have dissipated . |
| 7 | ‘ Also the blowpipes will long since have been thrown away . |
| 8 | This should not unduly worry us : by that time , unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System , mankind will long since have died out , extinguished along with our sun ! |
| 9 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 10 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 11 | Any normal person would long since have collapsed . |
| 12 | He 'd much rather have advised a disciple — the earnest girl Fruitbat , perhaps , or her relentlessly smiling lover , Chogyam-Jones , who dressed in what looked like a Chinese carpet ; their flattery was becoming necessary . |
| 13 | and , personally , I 'd much rather have er , people looking at me for what I achieved er , rather than just looking pretty on a day , I think that 's more important to me . |
| 14 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 15 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 16 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 17 | " I 'd much rather have written instructions than a telephone call . " |
| 18 | But suppose that the creditor accepts the debtor 's old car in satisfaction of a debt of £2,000 , protesting that he would much rather have the cash and eventually taking the car only because there seems to be no hope of anything better . |
| 19 | She would much rather have paid . |
| 20 | She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life . |
| 21 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 22 | I 'd much rather have something light in — ’ |
| 23 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 24 | Rob and family are coming for a long weekend , so we sha n't have our usual Christmas Day picnic this year , but we 'd much rather have their company . |
| 25 | but he person who was shop steward for the finishing department more or less assumed responsibility for the other shop stewards because the other shop stewards would perhaps only have fifteen or twenty , you know members er under them . |
| 26 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 27 | Could so much have changed in six months ? |
| 28 | ‘ Anna , ’ said Mr Mulgrove with an effort ( he would so much have preferred to call her Mrs Bouverie ) , ‘ this is your supervisor . ’ |
| 29 | Britvic orange juice I 'm alright with that , mind you I 'll only only have one , orange juice and lemonades I 'm alright with that alright with an orange drink . |
| 30 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |