Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 2 | So let me have your queries regarding these machines as well . |
| 3 | You 're gon na get so let me have a look while you er |
| 4 | It 's as simple as that , he 's showing interest so let him have it if he wants it . |
| 5 | So let them have one boyl Then glass them . |
| 6 | So let us have no talk of building on the existing legislation . |
| 7 | We 've done it all by talking to parents and finding our what they really want from us , so let us have your ideas , comments and requests too — after all , it 's your magazine . |
| 8 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 9 | ‘ There was only one sleeping-bag on the plane , rolled up in the blankets , and I 'm not gentleman enough to let you have it to yourself . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better let me have your name . ’ |
| 11 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 12 | ‘ Not only did we have to show that economically our project needed a reasonable gas price , but we also had to demonstrate that this new policy did not result in huge changes in Pakistan 's domestic consumer price . ’ |
| 13 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 14 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 15 | Not only did they have to feed the family and all the guests at ‘ the Big House ’ , but regular supplies were sent to the town house as well , then of course there were all the servants to feed . |
| 16 | Not only did they have to combat debilitating jet-lag and intense heat and humidity , but the Northern Territories included five top class guest players from Queensland and New South Wales . |
| 17 | But when women first achieved the vote , not only did they have no soundly based organisation to support them , they also had no significant power bases in other institutions . |
| 18 | Not only did they have to pay yasak , but Russians came and settled on their best lands . |
| 19 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 20 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 21 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 22 | We , too , should be grateful to Elizabeth ; not only did she have the foresight to bequeath a will for posterity to read , she also had the good taste — so rare in the family , alas — to be buried beneath a headstone which would retain its legibility over the years . |
| 23 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 24 | Not only did it have bundles of games and demos ( the only games I have enough money to buy ) but also pages of reviews ! |
| 25 | Not only did it have a mismatched neck and body , but the scratchplate was black , and therefore from the '70s . |
| 26 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 27 | What was more , not only did I have breakfast with I the family ( I live in the Smiths ' Quarter in Chelsea Barracks ) — toast , bacon and sausages , washed down with milk — but we had no muster parade that morning , and no Adjutant 's Orders to attend . |
| 28 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
| 29 | Not only did I have to borrow a gown , I was even lent a jacket to go under it ! |
| 30 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |