Example sentences of "[adv] have [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any purchaser from the wife is not concerned with this , as he is merely interested to check that the wife alone has power to transfer the property to him . |
| 2 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 3 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |
| 4 | And yet , despising her , Luke could n't resist her any more than she could him — but she alone had love to justify the weakness . |
| 5 | SSATs only have jurisdiction to consider an appeal against a decision of an adjudication officer . |
| 6 | Mark Flannagan , formerly Director of ASH Workplace Services , has been promoted to this post and has not had time to snatch a wink of sleep since . |
| 7 | Apart from the unfamiliarity of the entrances and exits and the other customary problems for the cast , Peter Hickton had not had time to complete the lighting plot , so much of that was being done in the course of the run , which meant endless waits while new lighting settings were agreed . |
| 8 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 9 | You 've scarcely had time to see a thing . ’ |
| 10 | He had scarcely had time to draw the curtains when there was a small , familiar tap at the door . |
| 11 | The Anfielders did not have permission to approach the player , but this was granted at a dinner with the Aberdeen party that evening . |
| 12 | We did not have occasion to examine the affidavits and documents in any detail because the parties had helpfully agreed a statement of salient facts . |
| 13 | If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions . |
| 14 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 15 | As we are all busy people we might not have time to repeat the picture onto a larger surface . |
| 16 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 17 | They are intended to assist groups at local level who wish to make some contribution but do not have time to study the Lineaments and respond to all its questions . |
| 18 | In the final hours , as it became clear that Manitoba would not have time to approve the Accord , the federal government announced that it would ask the Supreme Court for an extension of the ratification deadline . |
| 19 | This technique is only used when a person is dangerously ill and his own blood would not have time to develop the antibodies . |
| 20 | But I hope that the Court of Appeal will soon have occasion to consider the Manchester Corporation case . |
| 21 | Thus to have application to race the theories of Hegel and Freud must undergo radical critique and transformation ; with some of Freud 's followers , it is even the case of first having to discredit an overtly racist psychiatry ( see e.g. Black Skin , 63 , 138 , 151 — 2 , 220 ; Wretched of the Earth , 240 — 50 ) . |
| 22 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 23 | and just had time to visit the cathedral |
| 24 | The court has always had power to take a child out of the custody of a parent or guardian in cases of misconduct or unfitness , and in such cases , or in the absence of any lawful guardian , to appoint a suitable person as guardian . |
| 25 | Hard-working farmers and country people do n't always have time to appreciate the beauty in a line of animals on the move . |
| 26 | In Environment Issues we do n't usually have room to record every birth , marriage and death ( hatches , matches and despatches ) , however , Hygiene Leeds warrants a mention for the five marriages that have taken place over the last three months . |
| 27 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 28 | Mackintosh hardly had time to notice the notices , on his way to open Les Miserables in Manchester , England , and then on to Tokyo for Miss Saigon . |
| 29 | Geraldine hardly had time to boil the kettle , to make a cup of coffee , to toast a slice of bread between shots of Alan being rescued , wearing a blanket and sitting up in bed in pyjamas . |
| 30 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |