Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | And you 'd have heard it spoken about |
2 | Yes I 'd have heard it spoken about yes . |
3 | " Your grandfather might have heard it called the felty , or the pigeon felty or even the blue felty — and I think some call it fell fo ! " |
4 | And I who should have healed it severed it . ’ |
5 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
6 | So 15 of the chosen 30 have a very modest international background — and this going into tests against Australia , the World Cup holders , and South Africa , who rather fancy that they would have won it had they been invited . |
7 | The mounting and hinging of these three bones , by the way , is exactly as a hi-fi engineer might have designed it to serve a necessary " impedance-matching " function , but that is another story . |
8 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
9 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
10 | If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular , or if the pressure of matter had been low , one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma ray background . |
11 | ‘ I should have expected it to end just like it began with Stephanie — immediately , ’ said Rob . |
12 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
13 | Do you think we 'd have let it happen if we 'd known ? |
14 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
15 | I would n't have let it happen . ’ |
16 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |
17 | Penalty shootouts were required in each instance but only the most optimistic fan — or a representative from the Guinness Book of Records — would have forecast it happening again . |
18 | As a policy that might have succeeded it suffered from impossible political equivocation . |
19 | He said that , besides reducing the tower 's elasticity — which may have prevented it crashing before now — the weight of the steel and lead could lead to disaster by causing the soggy ground to give way . |
20 | We could have done it better ourselves . |
21 | ‘ I could not have said it better myself , ’ he said coldly . |
22 | And what were my wonderful talents , that I should have felt it mattered that they were ‘ wasted ’ ? |
23 | I 'm sure I would have missed it had I not been waiting for somebody nearby . |
24 | they must have seen it land or something like that . |
25 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
26 | Anyone passing Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Monday could well have seen it moving to a funky beat — not because of high winds or earthquake , but the first heat of the Coca Cola ‘ 93 Disco Dancing Championships , which are co-sponsored by ‘ Sunday Life ’ . |
27 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
28 | Should we have seen it coming ? |
29 | I guess we should have seen it coming . |
30 | ‘ I should have seen it coming . |