Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some people who have difficulty in paying for their water may prefer to have prepayment meters fitted .
2 The acquirer may want to have conduct of the collection of those debts , so that the seller does not use an unduly heavy-handed approach and damage the goodwill of the business after sale .
3 A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them .
4 A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken .
5 You must 've had people passing through there , famous people who you can register , get them there , do , do this sort of thing .
6 Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis .
7 By a process of mutual choice , referral back and elimination a number of names is arrived at of individuals who by reputation are assumed by those who should know to have power in the community .
8 To simulate reality the moving object must appear to have depth , but not be transparent .
9 If you are attempting to influence people whom you do not know , you must appear to have integrity and credibility .
10 Rachel had been , apparently , more relieved that Phoebe should be an unmarried mother than that she should have to have Jim as a sson-in-law .
11 ‘ I should have had abortions both times , ’ she muttered .
12 Should have had Paul here .
13 So these should have had price increases .
14 Should have had PC George Dixon at Port Stanley back in ‘ 81 , Jitters thought .
15 ‘ But in his last over , he had the guts to bowl really fast and he should have had Allan Lamb caught three times but each time their 'keeper dropped it .
16 I should have had scenes like the ones you shot with Curtis and Ireland .
17 ( We should have had boys ! )
18 Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe .
19 She should have stayed with Fernando , she should have had faith in her own feelings at the time — and his .
20 But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down .
21 ‘ By rights I should have had compensation , but the firm argued that he was a freelance , working on contract , and their lawyers wriggled out of it .
22 We should have had champagne .
23 William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable .
24 It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) .
25 Had this not been the case , I should have had renown in
26 She wondered whether she should have had Ari dress in a bath-robe or something .
27 Above her , the vault seemed so high it should have had rag-clouds like Mars , but it was unearthly white .
28 You take your moistened paper it should n't be dripping wet like this , it should have had time to dry out a bit .
29 Of course I have n't written the review — I doubt if I should have had time , my own work takes up too much . ’
30 They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority .
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