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

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1 ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them .
2 Mains transformers seem to be the main cause of problems , and I suppose that when building power supplies you do so sometimes have to connect the transformer in an apparently illogical manner .
3 She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it .
4 As to Mr. Cox himself , we obtained very little information that we did not already have , although perhaps a bit more detailed .
5 If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis .
6 She saw no reason to give him any information he did not already have .
7 In his view the SFO should adopt a code of conduct enshrining these ideas if it did not already have one .
8 Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one .
9 The proposal did not yet have concrete facts to back it up .
10 The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem .
11 However , US officials claimed that COCOM rules on the export of machine tools could not be relaxed because COCOM countries did not yet have " common standards " of effective protection .
12 They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies .
13 He did not yet have a chancery of his own , but it seems he did have his own chapel , that is , a team of household chaplains ( presumably equipped with relics ) .
14 We did not even have our own lavatories ; our employees had to go outside our part of the building to use communal facilities .
15 Botham did not even have much luck with the weather during his captaincy .
16 She did not even have any squeamishness left over .
17 The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing .
18 Most of their working-class contemporaries , of course , did not even have the opportunity .
19 The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance .
20 However , we would expect the effect of terminal education age to differ among people of different generations : 16 was the minimum school-leaving age for sample members aged 28 or less , whereas any respondents aged 80 or older did not even have to stay at school till they were 14 .
21 The examination , held at the Freemasons ' tavern , was entirely viva voce and the complaint was made that the candidates did not even have to cast a horse , or operate on a dead one , still less on a live one which might have benefited .
22 London at this time did not even have any sports teams outside of schools .
23 A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers .
24 For two years until autumn 1991 and Dr Chiappini 's appointment , it did not even have a director .
25 Alice , playing her violin at Holborn station , took it for granted , she did not even have to think about it , that the man playing the flute beside her had invited her to play because she was beautiful .
26 They paid the Greeks to teach them their wisdom and often did not even have to pay because they were their slaves .
27 ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask .
28 She did not even have a blanket , she had no money for food , and no idea of where to go for help .
29 They did not even have a rowing-team , as far as he was aware .
30 The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course .
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