Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ .
2 The PSA has always done it in the past .
3 And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret .
4 This retailer has now taken it off the shelves whilst Gloucestershire 's Trading Standards Department investigates .
5 She said , well I , I do n't know what to do , she said , I have n't read , you know , she had n't read the election , she had n't had time to read the election addresses , and she 's not really interested in ac actually so she has n't watched it on the television .
6 Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times .
7 Although AEI uses Business 400 in many countries , including Hong Kong , Canada , the Netherlands , Belgium and France , it has yet to install it in the UK .
8 We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ?
9 Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’
10 But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ?
11 ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you .
12 ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished .
13 you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips
14 I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that
15 I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event .
16 He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him .
17 ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’
18 The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room .
19 The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place .
20 In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government .
21 She might have just had it off the hook yesterday .
22 We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority .
23 Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle .
24 Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent .
25 Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station .
26 Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely .
27 What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream .
28 I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle .
29 I 've just nipped it off the top of that one , that 's not growing any more
30 I 've just put it to the boss to see if he 's er
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