Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’ |
| 2 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing — except that your mother asked me to have a look at her wedding outfit before I go . |
| 4 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 5 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 6 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |
| 7 | Katharine and Benji had produced some nice work together and at this point Jennie told them to have a rest on a long rein for a few minutes . |
| 8 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 9 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 10 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 11 | But then they came in , rolled up the carpet , cleaned the floor , put plastic mats down , told us to have a shower and gave us clean clothes and clean sheets . |
| 12 | I just mean that the school , in the shape of its teachers , expected you to have a go at a lot of things and do well . |
| 13 | We spotted our first reindeer lying down in a hollow by the roadside some distance ahead and , as I had a telephoto lens on the camera , the others encouraged me to have a go at stalking it . |
| 14 | Chemical analysis of coals after heating at 400°C for three days showed them to have a residual gas-generating capacity . |
| 15 | Analysis showed it to have a definite Valencian chemical composition : in Figure 6.2 it is part of the Valencian sub-group with black filled circles . |
| 16 | Similar tests with the camera showed it to have a well-defined and small field of view . |
| 17 | The testator had made a will , but then opened it to have a look at it . |
| 18 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 19 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 20 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |
| 21 | Last year , Trade Indemnity announced substantial losses which required it to have a rights issue which all bar the Prudential took up . |
| 22 | I ran into Trish in the Covered Market one day , and I felt so lonely I asked her to have a coffee . |
| 23 | They persuaded me to have a termination . ’ |
| 24 | Upon investigation , it was discovered that her Askins inheritance , held in trust , enabled her to have a mortgage of just £1,500 . |
| 25 | Your arrangements enabled us to have a holiday in a hitherto quite unknown area and one of great charm , and we look forward to travelling with you again . |
| 26 | Maturity of outlook over the years led it to have a capacity for assuming an independent role , based on its own inherent values . |
| 27 | She started hiding food away instead of eating it so as not to put on any weight , but hunger forced her to have a good meal at least once a week . |
| 28 | After this ordeal Tom left him to have a soak and slowly Willie began to unwind . |
| 29 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 30 | Uncle wanted me to have a twenty-first party but 1 August is an inconvenient date because it 's usually in the middle of haytiming , so we did n't bother . |