Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily . |
| 2 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 3 | Knighton , now owner of Carlisle United , blamed the board for allowing Leeds to take the title , saying : ‘ United had money in the bank and should have spent it on a striker at Christmas . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 5 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 6 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 7 | But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke . |
| 8 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
| 9 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 10 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 11 | We 'll have to treat it as a |
| 12 | It 's coming to the stage soon when we 'll have to put it in a building society , get some interest on it . |
| 13 | Or I 'll have to bash it with a rolling pin again . |
| 14 | Yeah I know , but , I 'll have to wipe it in a minute |
| 15 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 16 | I might have felt it as a duty . |
| 17 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 18 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 19 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 20 | The players could have played it without a conductor , we knew it so well at that time . |
| 21 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 22 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 23 | You could have sliced it with a spatula . |
| 24 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 25 | Well how can it , because it , it , I think it 's got to go through the thing here , if you see what I mean , it , it , the chop you 'd have to push it through a little bit and then have a , |
| 26 | Nobody knows , but you 'd have to milk it on a pogo stick ! |
| 27 | If anybody wanted to tell ( him ) something , they 'd have to write it on a piece of paper … ’ |
| 28 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 29 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 30 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |