Example sentences of "have [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 2 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 3 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 4 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 5 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
| 6 | One minute We 're welcome to collaborate with the person next to you , you do n't have to do it in splendid isolation . |
| 7 | Do you have to dip it in hot water or something ? |
| 8 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 9 | Some women would have taken it in good humour . ’ |
| 10 | It was a sensible decision and he may have taken it in full awareness of this . |
| 11 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 12 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 13 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 14 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 15 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 16 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 17 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 18 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 19 | I 've seen it at closed hand . |
| 20 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 21 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 22 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 23 | And then she 's written nearly as much in red ink on the back as I 've written it on black ink on |
| 24 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 25 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 26 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 27 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 28 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 29 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 30 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |