Example sentences of "[vb infin] have some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If I 'm going to have to organise my life around flying visits from you , I 'll need to have some idea . ’
2 Those with dairy goats may need to have some goats kidding in the autumn to obtain good supplies of milk in winter .
3 All that folklore about women operating on a different intellectual level because of their hormone differences would appear to have some basis in fact .
4 you might 've had some timetables like they have on the train
5 They would still like to have some toddler swings for the playing field and as an interim measure it was suggested that one of the existing swings should be fitted with a suitable toddler seat .
6 Now , if we 're going to allow an organisation like that , have we no erm chance to say that after they 've had their collection , we should like to have some indication of what percentage went to Oxford , so that when they apply again , we can at least know whether this is actually a genuine local organisation or national .
7 She asked him if he would like to have some sweets .
8 Yeah but erm but I 'd like to have some sort of life cover with that so if anything does happen to me she gets
9 A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’
10 As an alternative to a good kicking , the gang may decide to have some fun once they have rushed you .
11 Situations where subdivisions might have had some utility are served by the coordination of index terms at the search stage ( see 17.2 ) .
12 All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation .
13 That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) .
14 The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring .
15 I think perhaps , as I say , I 'd have had some colour .
16 We could n't see the slightest movement in the fog , but gradually the noise of the engines diminished and died away , and the collective sigh of relief from the top of Flying Control must have had some part in the clearance of the fog , as by the time all four aircraft returned ( bomb-less ) we could actually see the 1,000 yard marker on the other side of the field .
17 A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’
18 Bartocci might previously have had some difficulty in making himself heard , but now he instantly had the total attention of both men .
19 As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid .
20 The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary .
21 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
22 The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach .
23 Exactly why , he must have had some sympathy , must n't he ?
24 Richard III would have had some sympathy for the frustrations of the Afghan guerrillas in their fight for Jalalabad .
25 While we might have had some sympathy with Ted Hughes , as he contemplated writing about cantilevered girders , the refusal of the Post Office to honour the 1990 event and now this is inexcusable .
26 Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership .
27 Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down .
28 This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery .
29 Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill .
30 He must have had some friends in .
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