Example sentences of "have [vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 2 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 3 | There is only one exception to this closing date , that is if you can not vote in person because you are ill , and you could not have foreseen this on the closing date for applications . |
| 4 | ‘ No one could have foreseen this . ’ |
| 5 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 6 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 7 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 8 | Ca n't tell you anything other except that if you 're a Balearic Bogler you 'll definitely have heard this out somewhere in the past three weeks . |
| 9 | Anyone who has tuned into motor racing on the television will have heard this effect . |
| 10 | She spoke to her husband , but I thought she was addressing me , for he must have heard this before , or at least known what was in her mind . |
| 11 | Once again , 1989 may have altered this , but the queues to go abroad grew longer throughout 1988 . |
| 12 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 13 | The use of the same subjects both when shadowing was and was not involved may also have altered this result by accounting for any individual anomalies . |
| 14 | Two unspoken reasons could have explained this apparent lack of adequate precautions . |
| 15 | King Edward must have guessed this , or possibly some English sympathiser had slipped out of the town by night in a small boat undetected , which was quite possible , and informed him of the situation . |
| 16 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 17 | ‘ You may or may not have guessed this , Wallace , but I do n't like you . |
| 18 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 19 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 20 | Some sites may have developed this type of location for reasons of overall convenience ; others were clearly attracted by the economic potential of the crossroads . |
| 21 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 22 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 23 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 24 | The ‘ doomsters ’ would have been discredited , and you can be sure that plenty of people would have pointed this out forcefully . |
| 25 | With any other man Dalgliesh would have pointed this out and with some asperity . |
| 26 | The Emperor would have realised this , despite his later astonishing assertion that the bridge was capable of allowing the passage of six vehicles travelling abreast ! |
| 27 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 28 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 29 | The crew may have resented this . |
| 30 | A decision by parents to initiate resuscitation is subjective and some patients will have received this without a real need , as illustrated in patients whose subsequent and similar events were due to skin perfusion changes . |