Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 'll have heard that we painted the toilet block , and it does look very smart . |
| 2 | You 'll have heard that they lifted the army off the beaches at Dunkirk . |
| 3 | Er we was on the beach , you know sea front , he 'd er gathered some er brands of seaweed for making what they call Irish moss , Caragium And that would give you a good think emulsion , you see then in the , what was the cod season , cod fishing , you 'd go down to the harbour where the er fishing boat came in and where they were cleaning , and you 'd get the boss would have arranged that you get the cod 's livers . |
| 4 | She would have spat if she had the spit to spare in her dry carcass . |
| 5 | If you add essential oils as the water is running , much of the aromatic vapour will have evaporated before you enter the bath . |
| 6 | That satisfaction would smartly have evaporated when he reached the clearing and found me gone . |
| 7 | But he was clearly in a hurry , so it would have to wait until they reached the palazzo . |
| 8 | ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You will have to wait till I get the consent of the solicitor , at least . ’ |
| 10 | He might also have added that he plays the game rather well . |
| 11 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 13 | My advice to my touch judges on the action to take is ‘ what would you have done if you had the whistle in your hand instead of a touch flag ’ ? |
| 14 | Dr Tariq would not have said that he liked the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , but he admired him . |
| 15 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 16 | But looked at a er at any ordinance survey map , they 'd have seen that they got the track plan wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 18 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 19 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 20 | Fully two minutes must have passed before he plucked the pipe from his mouth and said : ‘ I do n't know what the document contains . |
| 21 | So we 'll , we 'll come back to that issue later , because we 'll have to approve whether we rent the land i in future years anyway , it does come up . |
| 22 | He knew he should have fired when he had the chance ; by leaving it too late , he 'd lost the advantage . |
| 23 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 24 | If he had lived , her hard-pressed mother might not have insisted that she accept the advances of the heir to the Sherman tobacco fortune . |
| 25 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 26 | Flinging her head upwards , she stared at Leo , and several seconds must have elapsed before she had the gumption to grasp his extended hand . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions . |