Example sentences of "to have [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fine , ’ Rosemary replied , but when , unusually , she appeared to have nothing else she wanted to chat about , yet did not ring off , Leith did a swift two-and-two calculation , and the answer she got told her that Rosemary wanted , in her parents ' absence , to talk about Travis . |
| 2 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 3 | Would you prefer to have nothing rather than something ? |
| 4 | Now he wo n't be able to have them again will he if he 's gon na bleeding muck about and act stupid . |
| 5 | In passing , I might say how extraordinarily lucky I am to have them here with me . |
| 6 | I was happy to have them here . |
| 7 | They did do them in white , but they do n't seem to have them here , I only saw one pair , they were n't my size the other day . |
| 8 | She would not part with her shoes for long enough for me to have them properly repaired . |
| 9 | It was a strange sensation to have them on — more intimate than sleeping with his widow . |
| 10 | Well you 'll just have to cry Bryony because you 're going to have them on because it keeps raining . |
| 11 | That must cost a fortune to have them on ! |
| 12 | Peter Kennard 's photomontages are powerful anti-war images and as such we should be pleased to have them around . |
| 13 | Hardly a baffling puzzle for Holmes , I agree , but it shows what the fever to own books , or just to have them around to consult , may drive someone to do . |
| 14 | Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal . |
| 15 | In Carter 's case , this ungainly , elaborate , opulent press conference is their first giant step into the mad , bad world of record company hype — a joke that got out of control — and , after all the fanfare and foreplay , to have them finally sitting there in the middle of a hall in Belgium almost seems like a punchline that is n't very funny . |
| 16 | Since many parents were miserable at being separated from their offspring and it would be a struggle for some to pay money for their misery , they finally decided to have them home again . |
| 17 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 18 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 19 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 20 | He had been persuaded to have them there and it did n't please him to have journalists foisted off on him . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , but it 'll be good to have them back , wo n't it ? ’ said Mrs Parvis . |
| 22 | So please put her mind at rest and tell her it 's not plastic , but some other product that 's not a danger to us , because we 'd love to have them back please ! |
| 23 | Its atmosphere welcomed them , as though glad to have them back . |
| 24 | They are very heavily booked so we are lucky to have them back here . |
| 25 | My classes will for the time being be taken by other teachers , all of whom have said that they will look after them until I am ready to have them back . |
| 26 | These levels can be independent of any specific interest in Romano-British society , but generally it is not meaningful to have them so . |
| 27 | Nice to have them now and again . |
| 28 | " Even the most hard-hearted father could hardly bear to have them out of his sight for long . " |
| 29 | He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it . |
| 30 | You see the problem again is that , is the same as it is for anybody , next week is just planning , as it were , you know , this is what it 's about , why did the general management not sit down and say , oh that 's peak time to have them out we can not have all them indoors in there from , that 's a full morning . |