Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own .
2 Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ?
3 There has been a great improvement in the range of goods and cards , I 'm sure you 'll all have noticed it too .
4 The man below had heard it too .
5 Not if you only had to do it once .
6 With Ark , explains Mr Round , you only have to hold it once .
7 ‘ I 've never bothered to check the mpg , but I only have to fill it once every two weeks . ’
8 But I I that way I only have to hear it once .
9 Try to coach the item in the correct order as it can confuse the class members if they suddenly have to put it together differently .
10 It will be an unusually dishonest catalogue that does not have to mention it somewhere .
11 When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought .
12 So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again .
13 Afterwards Leith could not help wondering if perhaps , with more experience of men , she might not have handled it better .
14 Most of the minority who were suddenly faced with ‘ pecuniary embarrassment ’ would have taken fright and felt a sense of failure , if not disgrace — sometimes needlessly , and for the most part would not have displayed it openly .
15 Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better .
16 Cos you 've got to allow for like they might not have done it before .
17 I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face .
18 TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before .
19 She did not have to accept it as real .
20 If he had realized this , he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a " Not-hawk " - that is , anything from a wren to a pheasant — and continued on his way up the slope .
21 When users want to improve the performance of their machine , they do not have to throw it away and buy a newer model .
22 I may not have shown it too well so far … ’
23 He said of course he did , he would not have suggested it otherwise .
24 The audience could not have told it apart from Christmas or the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .
25 My hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley , West and Penistone ( Mr. McKay ) could not have put it better .
26 Alexander II was well advised , at the point of emancipation , to plan an elaborate security operation , but he did not have to maintain it indefinitely .
27 We 'll just have to set it once but it has n't done it .
28 ‘ You 'll just have to take it home , ’ said Wendy .
29 ' I suppose you 'd just have to take it home , madam . ’
30 If you do n't take it , I will just have to throw it away . ’
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