Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
2 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
3 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
4 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
5 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
6 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
7 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
8 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
9 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
10 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
11 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
12 | You should have had a tough education . |
13 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
14 | Encamped for long spells in the Lansdowne territory Ballymena should have had a comfortable interval lead but McAleese uncharacteristically missed a penalty at either end of the first half . |
15 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
16 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
17 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
18 | It is remarkable , when you think of what most of us philosophers are like , that he should have had the sheer ability and integrity to elicit such a response from people of such political eminence . |
19 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
20 | ‘ You should have had an early night , ’ she commented . |
21 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
22 | [ 5 ] So the dream vision must have had a tremendous impact on his perception of the world . |
23 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
24 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
25 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
26 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
27 | We fill grocery cartons with shoes that have the shape of living feet , a bulge on the left where she must have had a swollen joint ; I did not notice it while she was alive . |
28 | The rather un-Byronic 30-year-old Dustin Hoffman must have had a similar experience on the morning of 22 December 1967 when he opened the newspapers . |
29 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
30 | ‘ He would slag off someone terribly and you would think they must have had a terrible row . |