Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A humourous man with a face which might have developed in later age into the kind described as craggy , he threw jokes at many questions , answered others with disarming bluntness . |
| 2 | His table was lavish , his welcome open and generous , they could hardly have fallen into richer pastures after all these vexations ; and yet Hugh continued throughout the meal curiously alert , as though he expected something unforeseen to happen at any moment , and divert events into some wild course at a tangent , just when Prior Robert , at least , was beginning to believe his troubles over . |
| 3 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 4 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 5 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 6 | He could n't have come in earlier through the front door because there would have been a substantial risk of either Dr Darnell or Wetherby himself seeing him . |
| 7 | Zermatt , for example , is a resort where many skiers must have wished for better links . |
| 8 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 9 | We could n't have wished for better weather — perfect sunshine , just the right start for a wedding day and honeymoon/the most beautiful , romantic white Christmas . |
| 10 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 11 | Once I had started to work with the children , I did exactly what I would have done with older children — or adult learners . |
| 12 | ‘ We could have met under happier circumstances . |
| 13 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 14 | It might have made for easier dealings with superiors and a better example for juniors , but then it was a major part of her sexual thrall over him . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , we 're all together still , are n't we ? ’ said Cliff 's brother Steve , with some asperity : he could have thought of better ways of spending the evening , given the choice . |
| 16 | However as Gorbachev managed to outsmart Reagan at every meeting it does not seem that Gordievsky 's advice was particularly useful and Reagan would probably have got on better without him . |
| 17 | We could have stayed for longer . |
| 18 | A number of factors besides increased gearing may also have contributed to higher corporate default rates . |
| 19 | But if , as the data say , they measure socially significant individual differences , the cost of banning them is paid mainly by those who might have benefited from better job placement and school curricula . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , the dip of this detachment structure may have flattened at deeper crustal levels , resulting in an along-strike warped geometry , with only the structurally highest level ( the South Mountains ) currently exposed at the surface . |
| 21 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 22 | Having said all that , you 'd have hoped for tighter marking on the best striker in England when he 's already got 2 goals ! ! |
| 23 | Mr Baker has returned to the backbenches to concentrate on his writing , leaving the talented Mr David Hunt , who would have gained from wider Cabinet experience , at the Welsh Office . |
| 24 | We had been told that the loans system would deter people who might otherwise have gone into higher education because of the so-called financial hardship that they would face . |
| 25 | In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both . |
| 26 | In fact , the more economical methods may have led to stronger liquors being discharged because the water has been the vehicle by which unwanted impurities have been removed from the textiles and put down the drain . |
| 27 | It was , I agree , unfortunate that my client could not have stepped in earlier . |
| 28 | Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 29 | Agreements or understandings could cover price-fixing and/or sharing out the available work without resorting to competition ( which would have resulted in lower prices ) . |
| 30 | In evaluations of the length of time spent on supervised clinical allocation before employment , the vast majority of course tutors said that course members felt that time allowed was inadequate , and would happily have continued for longer . |