Example sentences of "have [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 3 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 4 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 5 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 6 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 7 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 9 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 10 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 11 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 12 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 13 | If firm 2 reneges on punishment , then in the following period firm 1 must punish firm 2 for not having punished it in the previous period , and so on . |
| 14 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 15 | But damn him — it was bad enough that he be high-handed and autocratic when they were alone together — did he really have to carry it into the public arena too ? |
| 16 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 17 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 19 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 21 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 22 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 23 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 24 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 25 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 26 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 27 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 28 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 29 | So they do have to put it in the individual enquiry ? |
| 30 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |