Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 3 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 4 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 5 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 6 | If more would have gone back then the strike would have come to an end quicker cos , I thought more would have gone back then , but all the lads in they stayed out and nobody went in to work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 10 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 11 | It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question . |
| 12 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 13 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since there was no sparing of the short-pitched stuff , and no intervention from the umpires , to continue would probably only have resulted in an injury anyway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 . |