Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 2 | Elizabeth looked consciously unmoved , as though someone had paid her a compliment which , in modesty , she must affect not to have heard . |
| 3 | That 's right you do n't want just to have four chances , you want to have twenty chances . |
| 4 | I think I would be top of any seed 's list of players they would prefer not to have in their section . ’ |
| 5 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 6 | A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ? |
| 7 | I 'd prefer not to have to lie about it myself Naturally , I sha n't volunteer the information . |
| 8 | You , I am sure , have a better use for your manpower and I would prefer not to have an officer sitting in the hall like a bailiff . ’ |
| 9 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 10 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |
| 11 | They would prefer not to have to make a financial contribution , regardless of their ability to pay . |
| 12 | Tuathal said , ‘ i do n't suppose you mean that , but I 'd prefer not to have heard it . |
| 13 | I 'd prefer not to have any cups of coffee thrown in my face . ’ |
| 14 | She said I ca n't I 've just had a sleeping tablet . |
| 15 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |
| 16 | Anyone who could do so had already left the city for the comparative cool of the country . |
| 17 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 18 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 19 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 20 | Indeed , children deprived of such stimulation may grow up to have difficulty with human relationships . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope this baby does n't grow up to have your brains and my beauty , ’ said Ken . |
| 22 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 23 | One would expect both to have experienced upheavals , having completed about four years primary education before having to take up again in the UK . |
| 24 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 25 | So what we can do at this point here , Mr Prospect if you cast your mind back to when we first met , tell me how you feel , how , how do you , how , how do you feel today has gone now what should he say ? |
| 26 | He concluded his forty-five minute address by commenting on the political factors which influenced investment location decisions and emphasised that future multi-national planners would do well to have a much more sensitive appreciation of the social and political implications of their actions . |
| 27 | All the acts on tonight 's bill ( and a few others around the country ) would do well to have a long and critical look at what they 're doing and decide if people really need another adequate pop/rock/whatever band ! |
| 28 | And that end you would do well to have had in mind from the very beginning . |
| 29 | He would do well to have a quick refresher on Marxist economics . |
| 30 | ‘ If you do n't want or do n't have time to haggle , ’ says Mr Latif , ‘ you should make sure you buy your carpet , your jewellery , or your woodwork from a fixed-price store . |