Example sentences of "[adv] had have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 2 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 3 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 4 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 5 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 6 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 7 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 8 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 9 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
| 10 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 11 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 12 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 13 | Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned . |