Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The cyclic quadrilateral so formed has an important property ; its opposite angles add to 180° .
2 Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met .
3 It obviously has had the opposite effect
4 And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this .
5 The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task .
6 We 're all going to have a terrific time together , you know that , do n't you ? ’
7 But we 're all going to have a proper dinner by candlelight .
8 ‘ We would obviously like to have a synthetic surface of our own but we certainly would n't be able to provide such a facility without outside help . ’
9 We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " .
10 The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ .
11 You have to be a specialist , and even then , you can only hope to have a proper grasp of a small proportion of the scientific theories .
12 In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " .
13 It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop .
14 In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question .
15 It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant .
16 And in twelve years as an experienced shop steward , I can only recall having a full time officer in I think on three occasions .
17 She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going .
18 That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit .
19 It is in respect of ‘ contextually modulated sense ’ that a lexical unit may be justifiably said to have a different meaning in every distinct context in which it occurs .
20 He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years .
21 Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past .
22 Today 's world-class athlete no longer needs to have a full-time job to support his or her athletics .
23 ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says .
24 Cos I just , I just want to have a quick look through it before I gave it
25 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
26 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
27 unc ( the last clause , which is circular , is easily seen to have a unique solution . )
28 ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you .
29 But it is soon revealed to have a peculiar character .
30 So we 're just going to have a plain headstone , with my father 's names and dates .
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