Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a habit " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 2 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |
| 3 | Disturbed sleep has become a habit that will not be broken at once . |
| 4 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 5 | Today , his anti-Semitism has become a habit , a mechanical response , a focus for all his resentments : his poverty , his lack of formal education , his peripheral place in the world of music … . |
| 6 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 7 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 8 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 9 | This technique seems to have become a habit and not just in the Guardian . |
| 10 | Jordi Savall seems to have acquired a habit of strewing gold wherever he treads , and these performances buoy his reputation still further . |
| 11 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |
| 12 | She had developed a habit of raising her hand to her mouth to check because she had no feeling there . |
| 13 | But when the tabloids come knocking on your front door , harassing your girlfriend , when you spend some time making headlines than music , when you 've developed a habit that 's hard to break when you 've pissed your best mates off to the max , something 's got to give , right ? |
| 14 | Anyway , it did n't get anywhere and the first record we released with David was ‘ You 've Got a Habit of Leaving ’ , which we did at IBM Studios in Portland Street . |
| 15 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 16 | I went on following : it had become a habit . |
| 17 | Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them . |
| 18 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 19 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 20 | Durham , now pinned to the bottom of the championship table in their first season , have made a habit of signing golden oldies . |