Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer has always longed to have a Spitfire and one day Mike Searle , presumably having recovered from the shock of the Jungmann episode ( see the September issue , page 25 ) , pointed out an advertisement in which some Spitfires were for sale at Strathallan in Scotland . |
| 2 | " I suppose we 'd better start having a look along the banks soon , although I must say I 'm in no particular hurry . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd always fancied having a go and I thought ‘ why not ? ’ ’ he said . |
| 4 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 5 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 6 | The few days she had spent in Thomas Sachs ' company had already begun to have an effect on her . |
| 7 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 8 | ‘ When I wake up in the morning I 've just got to have a packet , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Well we 've always wanted to have a go at windsurfing ; visit Ibiza Town … or perhaps just climb back onto that sunbed ! |
| 10 | ‘ Never mind , I 've always wanted to have a go . ’ |
| 11 | They had , there , there was a small section still made kettles during the war cos I mean kettles wore out , wear out just the same , you 've still got to have a kettle or a bucket , but erm that 's like everything else there was only , only a small section so they was in short supply . |
| 12 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 13 | Although only one in five of the mothers in this book had positively wanted to have a baby , and a few did n't mind , the rest had no particular wish to get pregnant and were rather shocked to discover that they were . |
| 14 | I mean you 've really got to have a fridge in this day and age have n't you ? |
| 15 | It was an accident — we had n't planned to have a baby . |
| 16 | I 've recently started to have a problem controlling red algae , especially on the coral sand . |
| 17 | Here in Germany also , Panofsky 's English writings have not failed to have an effect . |
| 18 | ‘ There are local authorities that have not bothered to have a policy — let alone implement it . |