Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 2 | Mr Mayor , I do feel after councillor er er er speech I just have to make a little comment erm people in my ward . |
| 3 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The treatment was two doses of a very potent drug with rather nasty side effects ; I also had to swallow a small container on the end of a string and sleep with the string taped to my cheek all night ; in the morning it was drawn out with a sample of stomach contents . |
| 5 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 6 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 7 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 8 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 9 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
| 10 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 11 | Could she somehow have taken a wrong turning on the straight , unbranching surface ? |
| 12 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 13 | You just have to give a straight answer . |
| 14 | That 's the trouble with doing all these films and tellies — you just have to remember a little bit for a short take . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help . |
| 16 | You just have to have an official order |
| 17 | But when morning came she still had to keep a firm hold on her feelings , especially when Joanna pressed her to describe her evening with Giles . |
| 18 | But she still has to take a daily cocktail of drugs . |
| 19 | You you both have to have a little ride each back to my house because I ca n't I do n't think |
| 20 | And then you probably have to file a flat side on it : a real picklock 's square-sectioned . |
| 21 | She really has had an awful lot of attention . |
| 22 | I will sometimes arrange to discuss things on three successive Mondays , for example , or three successive months perhaps , because you never have to take a quick decision in a business , and out of the talking with people who respond to your way of working the right answer very often comes — the decisions mostly take themselves . |
| 23 | She too had brought an illegitimate daughter to the union , and died giving birth to Godwin 's own daughter Mary . |
| 24 | We just have used a simplified version of that . |
| 25 | We thus have to consider a typical evolution rather than attempt to cover all possibilities . |
| 26 | We also had to do a written test . |
| 27 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 28 | We also have to assume an average interest rate of 12 per cent over the 25 years . |
| 29 | Jim said : ‘ We had to tackle the traditionally bad image of train catering and we really have come a tremendous way as far as quality is concerned . |
| 30 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |