Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant . |
| 32 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 33 | Extreme discomfort in the legs , and sometimes the arms , leads sufferers to constantly move their legs around in bed , resulting in insomnia for themselves and anyone unfortunate enough to have to share a bed with them . |
| 34 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 35 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 36 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 37 | Saffroned mussels with pasta came to me when moules marinières , intended as a first course , suddenly had to feed a houseful . |
| 38 | But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days . |
| 39 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 40 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 41 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 42 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 43 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 44 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 45 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 46 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 47 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 48 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 49 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 50 | I told you Connelly had bought a warehouse . |
| 51 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 52 | Is it , is that because the th the house you live in 's got a lot of green space round it ? |
| 53 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 54 | I only have to see a bottle of Orvieto and those desperate dawns rise up before me . |
| 55 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 56 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 57 | You only have to read a book about the Left Bank . ’ |
| 58 | Now , I only have to get a Fender ‘ Eric Clapton ’ signature , a Marshall 30th Anniversary Limited Edition amp and a Bob Bradshaw rack ! |
| 59 | personally have had a horse actually had things thrown at it by saboteurs ! |
| 60 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |