Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Even when I recognized MacQuillan and he might have sensed me looking , he did n't glance up at me .
2 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me .
3 I found the word tumour chilling , and he must have sensed it .
4 Oh I guess she 'd have to invest it .
5 He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out .
6 ‘ Maybe we should have jumped him , then perhaps you could have injected him with something . ’
7 I sent off for mine last week — I 'm sort of hoping that they wo n't have posted them yet so it may be worth ringing up to try and cancel .
8 I told him I believed him and that it would be such a dirty trick not to post the letter that I was sure he must have posted it .
9 The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces .
10 ‘ My — father does n't have to acknowledge me .
11 You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’
12 Warner said , ‘ You do n't have to like me , Latimer .
13 You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time .
14 In short , Karnstein appeared to feel that while she had to do her job — by the book , of course — she did n't have to like it .
15 She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams .
16 But you did n't have to like it .
17 If they will insist on arriving unexpectedly , they 'll have to like it or lump it , wo n't they ?
18 He could put up with it , he agreed , but he did not have to like it .
19 Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it .
20 You 'd have highlighted it and sent it back .
21 Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed .
22 Mother would have given me a cuddle , and she was n't given to cuddles .
23 The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses .
24 Certainly , the illness would have given me plenty of opportunities to make strings of fireworks fizzle and explode in bright , whirling wheels of sulphurous pain in and behind Miller 's word-jellied eyeballs .
25 And you could have told the girl on switchboard to remind me — she 'd have given me the message , I assure you . ’
26 I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old .
27 One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt .
28 The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all .
29 Jackson , who failed in the Olympics , said : ‘ I had to win , or the rest of the boys would have given me stick , particularly Linford . ’
30 ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’
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