Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I got to have some beef in that role .
2 I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end .
3 At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality .
4 There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered .
5 The awful thing was that , as I said it , I began to have serious doubts about it .
6 I began to have strange dreams .
7 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
8 And so I began to have erotic daydreams .
9 But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’
10 After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory .
11 I had to have that fish .
12 So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week .
13 My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else .
14 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
15 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
16 ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see .
17 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
18 I had to have another look .
19 Four months later , I had to have another operation for cancer — of the lymph glands — and still had trouble with my back .
20 I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’
21 He commented : ‘ I felt the time was right to make a personal move forward as I wanted to have direct control over my own destiny and re-invest into the Province . ’
22 Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones .
23 Everyone seemed to have different ideas of what you should do .
24 Nobody seemed to have any doubt that Pencader would trounce his rivals on his debut at Newbury last month .
25 There was also a sanitary argument which seemed to have scientific backing , even if evidence was lacking .
26 One of the first opposition parties to be legalized ( on Sept. 12 , 1989-see p. 36905 ) was the fundamentalist Front islamique du salut ( FIS ) , which claimed to have 3,000,000 members .
27 Since they were safely extinct , nobody needed to have real nightmares about dinosaurs ; but their reconstructions did bring problems , and involved theory-loading .
28 The most extensive array of rubbish pits has been recorded at Abbots Worthy , Hampshire where there were twelve pits which appeared to have specific functions .
29 In these circumstances , the only diplomatic initiatives which appeared to have potential significance were those instigated by Iran in early February and by the Soviet Union in the middle of the month in a final attempt to avert a full-scale ground war .
30 No fewer than eleven Governors attended the first meeting on 15th March , which resolved to have quarterly accounts , and quarterly reports from the Headmaster .
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