Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] to have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August . |
| 6 | The Leeds manager always appeared to have a slight reservation about the gifted Frenchman 's ability to adapt to England . |
| 7 | Billy also decided to have a beer . |
| 8 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 9 | Anne never seemed to have a free moment . |
| 10 | The district judges of Colombo and Kandy later came to have a similar independent status . |
| 11 | Areas with a relatively high density of children also seemed to have a higher incidence ( table V ) , but a combined analysis was dominated by the recent oil impact measure . |
| 12 | The old African prohibition of multiplying sites of popular devotion to legions of homemade martyrs was turned inside out : every altar now had to have a martyr 's relic beneath it . |
| 13 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 14 | Cranston always seemed to have a fear of small boys . |
| 15 | For the first time since leaving the Harvard Business School of Management Klepner now began to have a glimmer of understanding of the many important practical differences between Europe and the United States . |
| 16 | Sealants Adhesives and Coatings also had to have the paint , originally designed for use on military truck exteriors , adjusted to provide a satisfactory finish on the composite while still meeting the MoD 's demanding DEF-STAN 80–41 criterion . |
| 17 | I doubt if my mother really wanted to have a child in the heat of India and was surely delighted that she was merely the victim of indigestion . |