Example sentences of "[vb past] to have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm they tasted I mean we all used to have a taste of it and it tasted quite nice ! |
| 2 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 3 | We quickly put it on and we erm tried to have a conversation and then we 'd walk off and I 'd ! |
| 4 | I tried to have a word with the Cashier but he was n't talking . |
| 5 | This driver saw the warning , but still tried to have a go himself . |
| 6 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 7 | A DELIGHTED woman has given birth to healthy sextuplets , seven years after she and her husband first tried to have a baby . |
| 8 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 9 | Conway carried a Ghurka knife in her belt while Marshall pretended to have a shotgun and threatened staff with a scythe and carving knife . |
| 10 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 11 | Then we stopped to have a cigarette . |
| 12 | I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be . |
| 13 | I really came to have a word with Charles Julian . |
| 14 | The inquiry will seek to find out how the prisoner came to have a razor . |
| 15 | One morning a umini from Pere came to have a look at it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 17 | Robertson is , like Levein , imagined to have a problem imposing himself on Roxburgh 's mind and has recently fallen further behind in the pecking order with the emergence of Eoin Jess at Aberdeen . |
| 18 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 19 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 20 | They seemed to have a secret between them that I could n't share . ’ |
| 21 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 22 | He seemed to have a tendency to goad and that would quite clearly lead to trouble . |
| 23 | Everyone seemed to have a newspaper in their hand that morning . |
| 24 | School rules required all girls to tie back their hair , and Victoria seemed to have a knack of observing the most oppressive and trivial regulations with grace . |
| 25 | She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta . |
| 26 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 27 | The family seemed to have a bias towards pink . |
| 28 | To her , people were more important than places : the young people 's sergeant major in charge of the Sunday School who did " everything well " ; teachers at school and Sunday School ; Miss Coe , Miss Cooper , Mr Adsett , " shining people " who seemed to have a kind of glow , a quality of goodness which Eva found very attractive . |
| 29 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 30 | Everyone in television seemed to have a sense of their self-importance , Dexter reflected . |