Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In view of the fact that £20 constituted the base line for richer taxpayers , it is difficult to explain why mere husbandmen , who typically were small farmers , should have formed three-quarters of the £20-£39 class , far outnumbering yeomen , businessmen , and even gentlemen .
2 With the already established public accounts committee , this would have given four such bodies , each with a salaried chairman , and the Catholics were to be given two of the chairs with the committees being made up to reflect parliamentary seats .
3 So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector .
4 However , had the last element in p been other than 4 , the three pairs of equations would have given three different answers .
5 That would have given three X squared Well that 's
6 After we 'd been happy , then we would have hated one another .
7 They are particularly anxious to hear from a man they think may have witnessed one attack .
8 They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means .
9 Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’
10 How could we have guessed 10 years ago that there would be a video shop on every street corner ?
11 We are disappointed that he left Leeds , but I 'm not sure that I would have regarded 2.75 million as money well-spent on a player of his type .
12 He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens .
13 By then , the team will have marched 10 miles a day for a fortnight to reach base camp and endured temperatures of -40C and galeforce winds — with only tents for shelter .
14 So , if you buy a yearling fish it will have consumed three years ' pellet rations and , hopefully , survived three merry-go-rounds of hazards .
15 If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent .
16 DC Lines , played by Kevin Lloyd , would have received three penalty points and a £40 fine , they claim .
17 At the end of March I will have completed six years .
18 ‘ I told Nathaniel that he must have completed two jumps .
19 Only if he succeeded after 14 December 685 would he not have completed twenty years by 14 December 705 .
20 At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down .
21 But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago .
22 For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different .
23 The acid released by the fire may have contaminated 40 special chemical suits and 26 breathing apparatus sets .
24 Athanasopoulos was charged with criminal fraud and forgery in the illegal sale as Greek produce of 20,000 tonnes of Yugoslav maize , which therefore did not attract countervailing levies by the European Communities ( EC ) which would have totalled 1,350,000 European currency units ( ECU ; approximately equivalent to US$1,630,000 ) .
25 ‘ We defended badly and threw away a game we should have won 3–0 , ’ he said angrily .
26 You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it .
27 With a squad of 22 to 24 , we would probably have won six and lost one and drawn one of our eight matches .
28 To be honest it was a game we would have won 99 times out of a 100 , but this was one of those occasions when we were destined not to do it .
29 ‘ Yes , if it had n't rained so hard , I 'd have won two hundred pounds easily , my love , ’ Troy was saying .
30 He commented : ‘ We were very honoured to be nominated in three categories of the ITV Awards for Marketing , and delighted that we should have won two .
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