Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America .
2 It has a university and technical colleges , and its large student population has helped to give it a reputation as a trouble-spot Muslim fundamentalist groups are very active in Asyut , and the Coptic population is large .
3 ‘ Well , ’ she said , with a twinkle in her eye , ‘ if you 'll keep a secret , I 'll tell you , but first you 'll have to promise to keep it a secret . ’
4 Her seven veils were much in demand ; one had fallen into the hands of the Party 's Wessex Area Treasurer who had undertaken to make it a prize in the Christmas draw .
5 The two sides eventually reached agreement but not before at least one priest had threatened to make it an election issue .
6 His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day .
7 They had decided to call it a day , that was all .
8 It 's great fun using a calculator when it 's a new toy but when you 've got to use it every time you need to work something out ,
9 — You 've got to give it a chance .
10 What happens with that camera , you 've got to rewind it every time .
11 You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing .
12 Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season .
13 The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . …
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