Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You must have realised that I resented him . ’
2 The pressure was all on Pippa Nolan then … she could n't afford to make one slip … one fence down would have lost it … her heart must have stopped when they rattled one but they kept their nerve and the lead to win Blenheim 's International Horse Trials
3 He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose .
4 Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world .
5 But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money .
6 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
7 Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them !
8 She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom .
9 But , of course , she would have noticed so I told her and we turned the scoop to our advantage .
10 For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain .
11 If the transferor bothers to read the transfer form he will find that it differs slightly from the one that he would have used if he transferred his shares to his wife or children .
12 The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs .
13 To look at her you would have thought that she had her life perfectly in control — but how wrong you would have been .
14 She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now .
15 ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’
16 And he must have known that she found his touch distasteful , yet did that stop him ?
17 ‘ They must have known when they sent them over , ’ he raged when he first went on short time .
18 And from a corner the visitor 's Leach saved full length , and Mark West should have scored when he lobbed it back , but Peak headed behind for a corner , this was all very very hectic indeed .
19 ‘ Would you have gone if I asked you to stay ? ’
20 He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past .
21 His lamp had gone out and while he was relighting it , our car must have passed and he fired his rifle vaguely in our direction .
22 So what did she mean , the proprietress of the lugubrious little estaminet on the banks of the lovely Loire , what could she have meant when she said she had nothing in the house for lunch ?
23 His college must have hesitated before it gave him permission .
24 ‘ I probably made that mark on the ground when I pulled over the door … there 's a scrape on the floor of the gazebo … must have happened when I pushed him over . ’
25 Coleraine boss Billy Sinclair must have shuddered as he watched his side 's dismal performance .
26 That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off .
27 ‘ I should have realized when you told me about his eyes .
28 Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of .
29 I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly .
30 I do n't think he had many friends here , certainly none that would have lasted after he took his diploma .
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