Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 2 | At the moment , he would have given quite a lot to stay here , and never return to the other cities again . |
| 3 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 4 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 5 | You 'll have heard already a whole range of opinion on their validity and usefulness . |
| 6 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 7 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 8 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 9 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 10 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 11 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 12 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 13 | All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias . |
| 14 | Had it occurred in the West , competing teams of scientists from many different countries and institutions would have carried out a mass of surveys of the victims and of the environmental damage . |
| 15 | The police must surely have carried out a more thorough examination of the rooms since the discovery of the body . |
| 16 | The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today . |
| 17 | The police must have carried out a very thorough search of the premises and she said , threw the book at my client . |
| 18 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 19 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 20 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |
| 21 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 22 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 23 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 24 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 25 | It was impossible that anyone could have torn out a brick through the wallpaper . |
| 26 | While the fundamentals of caddying may not have changed since Skip Daniels and Gene Sarazen strode the Prince 's links , the financial aspect has : whereas a caddie in the 1930s might have earned only a pittance for sharing an Open success , the modern-day caddie earns a healthy basic wage on the European tour , and can look forward to a percentage of the winnings . |
| 27 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
| 28 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 29 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 30 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |