Example sentences of "[adv prt] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 2 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 3 | Tim leaned over to have a good look at him , but his foot slipped and he fell in . |
| 4 | In my experience of doing exams , and I 'll talk to you about revision techniques in a minute , erm generally you 're better off to have a broad coverage of a syllabus rather than having a shallow one , right ? |
| 5 | Well it probably rounded off to have a total VIF I mean , re-date the IFUT from there . |
| 6 | Next time we see them they , they have met and and Face sends them off to have a private conference . |
| 7 | Charlotte 's companion said with quickening interest , and set off to have a closer look . |
| 8 | The doctor was telling her that he was off to have a good time where Lydia lived , imagining that this would induce envy in her . |
| 9 | Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen . |
| 10 | Friends took me up to have a closer look at it , and I understand the pilot , who was an Australian , managed to bale out and came down safely somewhere near Balder Head . |
| 11 | One mother who beat cancer as a child and grew up to have a healthy daughter is Sally Scott . |
| 12 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 13 | An alternative is to have dentist and patient and make a joke of it , with the dental instruments being a hammer and a pair of pliers and the patient made up to have a large abscess . |
| 14 | Whether in slices or in the intact brain , LTP turned out to have a similar range of properties . |
| 15 | Eventually a vehicle stopped , and its occupant , an American diplomat , got out to have a closer look at this strange bundle of fur . |
| 16 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 17 | He stepped out to have a better look . |
| 18 | They are out to have a good time . |
| 19 | For the most part I go out to have a good time , and hopefully communicate that to the audience |
| 20 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 21 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 22 | Dalgliesh nodded almost imperceptibly to Massingham and the Inspector slipped out to have a quiet word with Sergeant Underhill . |
| 23 | One mental condition after another turned out to have a physical basis and , sometimes , to be alleviated when the physical defect was corrected . |
| 24 | I turned out to have a modest talent for neuropsychiatry . |
| 25 | Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more . |
| 26 | On retirement from the army he went on to have a succesful career in business . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're just about to have a new camera and darkroom ’ , he said , ‘ and then we shall only be about ten years behind the times . ’ |
| 28 | And you 're about to have a new stepmother . ’ |
| 29 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 30 | British Telecom is about to have a second stab at selling services in ‘ video conferencing ’ — the holding of conferences by business executives over video links . |