Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material . |
| 2 | ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London . |
| 3 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 4 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 5 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 6 | You may have heard of a technique called ‘ path analysis ’ and have wondered if it referred to the methods discussed in this chapter . |
| 7 | ‘ I doubt if you 'll have heard of a Romany having a magistrate removed from office either , Mr Peck , but make one arrest here and you 're very likely to be the first . ’ |
| 8 | If it had landed , my head would have flown like a shied coconut . |
| 9 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 10 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |
| 11 | He knew no English and took no interest in what he must have regarded as a far flung outpost of his Angevin Empire — except for the revenues it could bring . |
| 12 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 13 | The staff regarded the administration as ‘ firm but fair ’ , and most seemed to appreciate what a younger and better educated workforce might have regarded as a somewhat paternalistic attitude . |
| 14 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 15 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 16 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 17 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 18 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 19 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 20 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 21 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 22 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 23 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |
| 24 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 25 | Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts . |
| 26 | Shame they could n't have stumbled upon a more dramatic way of doing it . |
| 27 | The village of St Anton could have fallen off a picture post card : it 's that pretty ! |
| 28 | I guess they may have fallen off a lorry ? |
| 29 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 30 | Er , that could have fallen off a car cos it was a big piece and there was n't anywhe anywhere else . |