Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |
2 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
3 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
4 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
5 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
6 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
7 | It is unlikely the DUP would have agreed to a meeting anyway , as the American delegation is in favour of sending a peace envoy to the province , but a boycott by the Ulster Unionists would be a major blow . |
8 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
9 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
10 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
11 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
12 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
13 | No , I shall have to turn on a dress out the club book where it says about |
14 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
15 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
16 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
17 | Cati , my little wild lion cub , you 'll have to act like a woman soon . |
18 | In practice , however , share prices would have to rise by a bit more to convince holders to convert warrants into shares , since by switching from bonds into equities they would be taking an extra risk . |