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 That 's right you do n't want just to have four chances , you want to have twenty chances .
3 She said I ca n't I 've just had a sleeping tablet .
4 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 .
5 Anyone who could do so had already left the city for the comparative cool of the country .
6 Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate .
7 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 .
8 One would expect both to have experienced upheavals , having completed about four years primary education before having to take up again in the UK .
9 ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 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 !
13 And that end you would do well to have had in mind from the very beginning .
14 He would do well to have a quick refresher on Marxist economics .
15 A moment 's reflection will show there have , from very early times , been ‘ industrial ’ and other special-purpose buildings — ‘ henges ’ , fogous , shrines , kilns , mints , abattoirs , amphitheatres , salthouses and many others .
16 ‘ We did originally conclude that the MiG 25 posed no real threat to our air defences , but it would appear there have been some new developments .
17 He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’
18 That is not said by way of criticism , because the case does not appear primarily to have been argued before him on that basis .
19 I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired .
20 So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two .
21 Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit .
22 Can the stifling effect that aid usually has on those who should learn to prosper through their own efforts be avoided ?
23 Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake .
24 ‘ We shall work together to have the peace talks resume in a convenient and admirable atmosphere , ’ Mr Shara added .
25 It is symptomatic of the individualistic fallacy and its popularity among therapists — who , as we shall see shortly have a special reason for embracing it — that a myth has emerged which claims that Freud himself did not take seriously his most important single work on social psychoanalysis , Totem and Taboo .
26 But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants .
27 Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life .
28 I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days .
29 And ran errands for her willingly and without complaint ; but no , I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly .
30 I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly . )
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