Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was long and pointed , like a quill , and she wore a hat that seemed to have a beak . |
| 2 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 3 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 4 | I was strip searched and told to have a bath . |
| 5 | Priding themselves on being modern-minded about such things , they subjected passion to planning and decided to have a spring baby . |
| 6 | Passing Bengie Pool , where Brora 's largest salmon , a fish of 45lb , had been caught , John Wilson noticed a good fish rising and decided to have a throw at it . |
| 7 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 8 | I got the colleague 's address and went to have a word with him . |
| 9 | She left him there , and went to have a bath : dressed briskly , went downstairs to inspect the damage , had a coffee , looked at her list for the day . |
| 10 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 11 | He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems . |
| 12 | The Moore came over all giddy at this and had to have a sit down . |
| 13 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |
| 14 | ‘ She just missed one , so she dropped in at our local for some fags , and stayed to have a drink . ’ |