Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have had another breakdown , since she speaks of ‘ a great sickness in her head … so that she feared to have lost her wits therethrough ’ . |
| 2 | It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen . |
| 3 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 4 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 5 | So if you ever go in and you want to have a oil that relaxes you , you look at all the red ones . |
| 6 | ‘ Only if you promise to have lunch with me tomorrow ! ’ he demanded outrageously . |
| 7 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 8 | So if you want to have a look , just pop along . |
| 9 | You need to spend time with each dog — and that requires a little bit more effort , especially if you decide to have two puppies at the same time . |
| 10 | I think my father must have suffered some of this , if only because he refused to have us children christened . |
| 11 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 12 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
| 13 | Marc was saying , ‘ When I gave you that place on your twenty-first birthday , Peter , I foolishly imagined it would help you settle down as you seemed to have no idea what you wanted to do with your life . |
| 14 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 15 | Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on |
| 16 | Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’ |
| 17 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 18 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 19 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 20 | Just that I happen to have lost my job ! ’ |
| 21 | It 's just that I seem to have got very bored with it . |
| 22 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 23 | Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ? |
| 24 | Practices would be wise , however , not to appoint unqualified people just because they seem to have good listening skills . |
| 25 | But they were still there , she realised , all those doubts … nothing had changed , just because she happened to have ricocheted from Mortimer 's clutches into Guy 's arms this afternoon , just because Guy Sterne 's physical chemistry created a minor explosion when it mingled with hers … |
| 26 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |
| 27 | She wanted to forget all about this man beside her , just as he seemed to have forgotten about her . |
| 28 | Then , just when it seemed to have settled , it made a sharp sideways movement , tugging against the halter . |
| 29 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |
| 30 | The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look , confident heroics would not be called for . |