Example sentences of "to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Essentially what I look for is a star , somebody with great character , , confirms Gatfield. ‘ of course , it is usually the front man , the singer , who needs to have that special appeal . ’ |
| 2 | It was unprecedented for any woman to have that effect on Davidson , whose success in this field was legendary . |
| 3 | We might like to have that distinction in mind as these lectures continue . |
| 4 | Everyone can see that Mr Kinnock is running very hard to win , straining every sinew ; but Mr Major , in comparison , does not appear to have that same , almost feral , competitive edge , that they want . |
| 5 | And it did n't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him . |
| 6 | To have that authority over members of the community one has to show , among other conditions imposed by the normal justification thesis , at the very least that members of the community on whom the scheme will impose some burdens have reason to contribute their share to the maintenance of the scheme . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I am glad to have that over , ’ Catherine said . |
| 8 | Its author was to have that opportunity later . |
| 9 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |
| 10 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 11 | But you 're amazingly lucky to have that fifty pounds a year ! |
| 12 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |
| 13 | One of the great benefits of being planted out by a mother church is to have that church often praying more for the new church than for itself . |
| 14 | I had to have that fish . |
| 15 | I 've been using the Strats for four or five years ; it 's nice to have that more defined sound , and more variety of tone than the Ibanez and Gibsons I used to use . |
| 16 | One of the reasons we chose the name U2 was to have that ambiguity which I think is necessary , so that it 's not so easy for people to make premature assumptions or wrong associations . |
| 17 | ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to . |
| 18 | ‘ When this thing 's over , I 'm going to have that smartass . ’ |
| 19 | If that is true , why does someone with a lavish lifestyle have a right to have that maintained while families who have defaulted on £20,000 mortgages have their homes repossessed ? |
| 20 | ‘ You have to have that quality because unless you do when you are fighting an animal then it will execute you . ’ |
| 21 | And however you decorate your spacious new room , it still tends to have that feel of two rooms made into one . |
| 22 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 23 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 24 | I was really lucky to have that chance for higher education . ’ |
| 25 | Male music has a heritage which is admired , men are allowed to have that . |
| 26 | I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’ |
| 27 | You need to have that and it is no bad thing provided , of course , that at the same time you are prepared to listen and benefit from good advice . |
| 28 | An utterance like ‘ Here ’ can have a use without there being something that is meant by the word uttered , something which the utterer must know , either by acquaintance or by description , for the utterance to have that use . |
| 29 | She would advise a customer not to have that : it looked too old , or it smelt . |
| 30 | I know in advance that we 're not going to have that kind of luck but it 's worth a try . |