Example sentences of "i [vb base] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect also I regret to have to say that the stated approach of the justices was seriously flawed . |
| 2 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , I regret to have to inform you that , due to an accident to Mr. Banks , we will be unable to continue the performance . ’ |
| 3 | I regret to have to tell the House that a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in Musgrave Park hospital at 3.53 pm last Saturday , killing two soldiers and injuring 11 other people , among them a five-year-old girl and a baby of four months . |
| 4 | If it did I 'd never get the jade back — and , one way or another , I mean to have it ! ’ |
| 5 | Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’ |
| 6 | erm , well it just , it just , you know , with her , I mean , she ca n't sit still , I mean to have , I mean I , the last four Saturdays , admittedly I have n't been well , but I 've just been totally indoors sewing . |
| 7 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
| 8 | I intend to have a thoroughly enjoyable and lengthy period without paid work . |
| 9 | And I intend to have it . |
| 10 | ‘ Because he would n't have answered it , and I intend to have my money . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I want a chalet and I intend to have one , ’ she declared imperiously . |
| 12 | ' ’ I trust to have word from you by this messenger , and delay only to know that you wish me to proceed . |
| 13 | I hate to have to admit it , but I had a disaster the other week at a class . |
| 14 | He said , " I hate to have to ask , but could you let me have the twenty pounds ? |
| 15 | oh I hate to have to work , I hate lawn mowers like that they 're annoying |
| 16 | I tend to have a lot of sausage and bacon because it 's easier and my time is somewhat at a premium with around a dozen cattle to care for . |
| 17 | I tend to have a fairly light touch , often only skimming across the surface of the paper , or over the top of previously applied colours . |
| 18 | I tend to have flat ones . |
| 19 | It 's not far , under a mile , the grey house beside the churchyard , the one with those disagreeable laurels I long to have cut down but the Rector says no , they give us some privacy and I suppose , as usual , he is right . |
| 20 | Aye it was a difficult job but as I say to have an experience mines |
| 21 | Look , you just hang on here a minute , I want to have a word with Katrina about something . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I want to have a child too , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms . |
| 24 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 25 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 26 | I want to have a word with you . ’ |
| 27 | We 're going to a restaurant for dinner so I want to have something special ; |
| 28 | I want to have a word with that … that … ’ |
| 29 | ( 11 ) I want to have a meeting this week . |
| 30 | And before anything else , I want to have a word with Tzani-bey al-Ablak . ’ |