Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way .
2 If there is a break in recording during the lecture for any reason , you will also have to find a way of telling the viewer what happened in the gap .
3 ‘ We 'll have to find a way of taking Fenella with us , ’ he said .
4 I would have to find a way of bypassing it .
5 ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’
6 Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 .
7 His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions .
8 For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs .
9 He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them .
10 I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed .
11 It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit .
12 I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ .
13 They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom .
14 That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her .
15 It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it .
16 He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack .
17 Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food .
18 You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise .
19 Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular .
20 He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’
21 ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’
22 Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them .
23 You will probably have to do a bit of hunting around in order to find the fittings for making connections to cast-iron stacks : if local merchants do n't have what you need , contact a specialist firm .
24 ‘ You do n't have to do a lot of snooping to find out who my wife is .
25 But how do we gain access to Renaissance culture , especially when our readings of the texts that document that culture indicate that a process of necessary counterfeit may have played a part in determining how these texts inscribed their culture ?
26 If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version .
27 When the moment has finally arrived that your specimens are ready for use , you will have to devise a way of storing them safely .
28 The research on lawyers , presented below , could have provided a basis for continuing to classify together lawyers , doctors and vicars .
29 RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively .
30 Could she have found a strategy for comparing the areas ?
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