Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose being realistic we could clean the car out in the evening because you only got to have the door open you 've got the interior light on |
| 2 | None of the places I had been in seemed to have a men 's room anyway . |
| 3 | He obviously meant to have the land that was being auctioned , and when he set his sights on something Luther Reynolds usually got his way . |
| 4 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 5 | Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution . |
| 6 | I just happened to have a photograph . |
| 7 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 8 | You just wanted to have a change ? |
| 9 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 10 | She just wanted to have a look . |
| 11 | I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it . |
| 12 | This driver saw the warning , but still tried to have a go himself . |
| 13 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 14 | Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh . |
| 15 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 16 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 17 | Cranston always seemed to have a fear of small boys . |
| 18 | She became school librarian , and always seemed to have a book in her hand . |
| 19 | Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back . |
| 20 | But it does lead inevitably to ignorance , for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure if King Stephen ever did have the Empress in his power he would not wave a sword in her face , ’ she declared severely . |
| 22 | For not only would the developers — who always did have a reputation as sharp dressers — be examples of sartorial elegance but the traditionally staid chartered surveyors would also have swapped their green-check jackets and corduroy trousers for double-breasted suits , red braces and ties that were more of a ‘ statement ’ than a fashion accessory . |
| 23 | He still had to have a medical . |
| 24 | Jo always had had the gift of the gab , she could make a stone laugh doing her imitation of Mr Silver trying to get her up behind the cloakroom door . |
| 25 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 26 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 27 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |
| 28 | If they ever wanted to have a moan about anything I did wrong , like using the bathroom too often , they used to tell Lesley to tell me . |
| 29 | " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents . |
| 30 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |