Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There 's always a self-imposed pressure , especially when you 're starting out — ‘ Shit , I 've got to come through big-time on this ’ — but you just have to let it happen ; if it does n't happen today it 'll happen tomorrow . |
2 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
3 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
4 | All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . |
5 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
6 | I would n't have let it happen . ’ |
7 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
8 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |
9 | I ought never to have let it start . ’ |