Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Russians I would have been executed on the spot . |
| 2 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 3 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 4 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 5 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 6 | ‘ After the events in Leipzig and other cities I would have expected more , ’ said another . |
| 7 | And what misgivings I might have |
| 8 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 9 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 10 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 11 | At times I could have laughed out loud . |
| 12 | ‘ And one of those times I must have crossed into someone else 's territory . ’ |
| 13 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 14 | I 'm running back to my office to make all the phone calls I should have made already this morning ; Summerchild is running just in front of me , a pace and a half behind Serafin , trying to catch the various pearls now flying back unrecorded over her hurrying shoulder . |
| 15 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 16 | If the filly did go off her legs I should have to start cutting into her windpipe , but I put the thought away from me , For the moment I had to depend on the adrenalin . |
| 17 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 18 | They were a bit away from the Rice Crispie hole type of thing but if I 'd have used my eyes I would have noticed where they were . |
| 19 | It could be that when introducing the other Emperors I will have to move the tank decoration around in order that the established Emperors would lose the boundaries of their territories . |
| 20 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 21 | Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’ |
| 22 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 23 | These are , I hope , the last Darwin books I shall have to read for some years ( unless of course Sydney Smith produces one ) . |
| 24 | In emphasizing simplicity of signals I may have gone too far . |
| 25 | Second , it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience . |
| 26 | A massive tribal gathering at Altamira helped to stop a $500 million loan to build hydroelectric dams which would have caused untold environmental damage . |
| 27 | A Japanese government spokesman claimed that post mortems had revealed parasites in the animals ' ears which may have resulted in their having lost their sense of direction . |
| 28 | Around the park you will see a variety of animals which will have particular appeal to children . |
| 29 | The hands sketched architectural constructions which might have ranged from Ilium 's topless towers to the semi-detached next door . |
| 30 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |