Example sentences of "have have " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think that its readers can have had much trouble in finding in the life and work the responsiveness Ackroyd finds in them .
2 It seems clear , however , that Chatterton need n't have had prodigious talent for the talent expended in the novel to take effect .
3 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
4 Levi , the expert on metals , would have had no difficulty in telling the difference between gold and tin .
5 Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’
6 The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters .
7 In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) .
8 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
9 The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira .
10 It was an exclamation she might have had to clarify .
11 She was after everything in trousers , young or old , she 'd have had Mr Pepper in the end , you mark my words , and then what 'd happen to the Company ?
12 ‘ Going by form she 'll have had someone in there with her . ’
13 She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’
14 We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) .
15 The ones I 've seen have had startling cluster heads of tiny pink-red flowers , star-shaped on pentas and tubular on ixoras , amid bold , leafy foliage .
16 However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost .
17 One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour .
18 I find it a little horrifying to think that some Commercial pilots flying large numbers of passengers may have had very little exposure to reduced ‘ g ’ .
19 1 in 2 people will have had shingles by the age of eighty-five .
20 Your Occupational Therapist will have written to the Environmental Health Officer to support your application and you will have had an initial test of resources .
21 Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of .
22 ( We should have had boys ! )
23 By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors .
24 ‘ If they had , the troopers would have had their heads off . ’
25 But surely , if he had been spying , he would have had to continue coming to all the meetings ?
26 With the disappearance of temple-worship as such , this fell into misuse , but a new significance took its place , which would have had particular significance for Leonard 's parents and grandparents .
27 So the consideration of his uncles ' place in both the community and the synagogue calls to mind the fact that his father , as the first born son , should have had that pre-eminence .
28 ‘ You should have had an early night , ’ she commented .
29 ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’
30 I should have had it altered .
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