Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 2 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 3 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 4 | We 're all going to have a terrific time together , you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | But we 're all going to have a proper dinner by candlelight . |
| 6 | ‘ We would obviously like to have a synthetic surface of our own but we certainly would n't be able to provide such a facility without outside help . ’ |
| 7 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 8 | You have to be a specialist , and even then , you can only hope to have a proper grasp of a small proportion of the scientific theories . |
| 9 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 10 | The island of Hawaii alone seems to have a long-term average rate of construction of over 0.4 km 3 a- 1 , while Iceland has sustained a rate of about 0.13 km 3 a- 1 during historic time , and a rather lower average of 0.06 km 3 a - 1 over the past 16 Ma . |
| 11 | It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop . |
| 12 | But this is not a good enough reason to have a large military arsenal since peace-keeping forces in the past have only consisted of soldiers and personal defence weapons . |
| 13 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 14 | It is in respect of ‘ contextually modulated sense ’ that a lexical unit may be justifiably said to have a different meaning in every distinct context in which it occurs . |
| 15 | Today 's world-class athlete no longer needs to have a full-time job to support his or her athletics . |
| 16 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Cos I just , I just want to have a quick look through it before I gave it |
| 18 | unc ( the last clause , which is circular , is easily seen to have a unique solution . ) |
| 19 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 20 | But it is soon revealed to have a peculiar character . |
| 21 | So we 're just going to have a plain headstone , with my father 's names and dates . |
| 22 | Yes Well I 'm just going to have a little nibble at the end of that . |
| 23 | I really like a very low action and it 's just got to have a whammy bar . |
| 24 | Well , I think the thing for me is I do n't feel like I have to look brilliant , I just like to have a good time . |
| 25 | The interest rates and prices of financial assets are generally recognised to have a pervasive influence in the economy . |
| 26 | If Diana thinks she can just try to have a normal Christmas without the boys she is going to have a very miserable day . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice . |
| 28 | Even if soil temperature is generally found to have a minimal influence on root mortality , the fact that rates of fine root turnover can vary substantially among virtually identical ecosystems needs to be reconciled with current knowledge and models of below-ground processes that do not account for this phenomenon . |
| 29 | The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements . |
| 30 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |