Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
2 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
3 In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw .
4 He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way .
5 Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight .
6 They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law .
7 Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side .
8 They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted .
9 ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’
10 In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity .
11 And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team .
12 Going back to the agents up in the town , the boatmen to get information about a ship coming in they would have to go up to the town
13 They would have to go up to the town , yes
14 Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’
15 They 'll have to go up into the attic .
16 He would have to go round to the back .
17 I would have to go off to the lavatory , come back and start the same scene with a variation .
18 I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up .
19 They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries .
20 I think it 'll have to go down to the post office , I 've write to Diane now
21 I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week .
22 They would be perhaps regarded as thick as two short planks , er they would not be happy , they would be struggling to do work that was not honestly within their capacities , that being the case , they would almost certainly have to go down from the University .
23 We 'll have to go back into the bushes , then take the tradesman 's path . ’
24 Unless — do you have to go back to a hospital with it , or anything ? ’
25 I 'll , I 'll be going to the village hall but I might have to go back to the Cross Keys , that 's why I put Roger , perhaps I put the wrong thing on you see ?
26 She would have to go back to the hotel , or find another just as bad , and resume the soul-destroying trudge from one unsuitable rabbit-hutch to another .
27 You 'll have to go back to the nursery .
28 He might have to go back to the road and start again .
29 This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower .
30 " I may have to go back to the bank for an hour or so — there 'll be all sorts of things piling up on my desk .
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