Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 2 | She was neither rich enough nor impressionable enough to have walked out on a well-paid job simply in order to indulge a vapourish mood . |
| 3 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 4 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |
| 5 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 6 | Even if this is difficult to provide , candidates should not have to wait around in a very public area . |
| 7 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 8 | The position of women has changed in a number of ways , such that a wife does not have to put up with an unsatisfactory marriage in the way that her mother might well have done . |
| 9 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 10 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 11 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 12 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 13 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 14 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 15 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 16 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 17 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 18 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 19 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 20 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 22 | Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last |
| 23 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |
| 24 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 25 | However , BIG BEAT , 9-2 with Hills and Ladbrokes , could well have crept in on a very lenient mark . |
| 26 | Oddly enough , Stirling might well have ended up as a brigadier with an even larger command . |
| 27 | But it could equally well have started out in a very lumpy and disordered state . |
| 28 | That bias towards comfort has meant compromises as far as sporting handling is concerned ; so you do n't have to put up with a jittery ride over poorly made up roads . |
| 29 | So now you do n't have to put up with a two-star performance from ordinary mercury-free batteries , when there is now a new four star alternative . |
| 30 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |