Example sentences of "have [verb] it [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 2 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 3 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 4 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 5 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 7 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 8 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 9 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 10 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 11 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 12 | Store has got it in the can |
| 13 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 14 | He has raised it with the contractor . |
| 15 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 16 | Bored with the custom of the bishop 's Easter letter , Hope has replaced it with a tabloid , just out . |
| 17 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 18 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
| 19 | Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch . |
| 20 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 21 | That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars . |
| 22 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 23 | Dr Schoenwetter has found it in a layer of soil 6,000 years old — younger than in Panama , but still older than in Mexico . |
| 24 | Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players . |
| 25 | He has proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt . |
| 26 | Conrad ( 1971 ) has shown that this has a developmental pattern and Baddeley ( 1979 ) has linked it to the development of reading . |
| 27 | When she has stocked it with an egg and its immobilised meal , she seals the vessel with a bung made from one final pellet . |
| 28 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 29 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 30 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |