Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 2 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 3 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 4 | He thus arranged to have each Dalek fitted with a waistband of vertical metal slats to suggest some form of solar ray receiving system . |
| 5 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 7 | But whereas Oldman always seemed to have mainstream Hollywood in his sights . |
| 8 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 9 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 10 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 11 | ‘ I always wanted to have nice things , ’ she explained , seeing Ianthe 's interested looks , ‘ so I collected these over the years . ’ |
| 12 | They probably expected to have Jewish readers too . |
| 13 | Workers had rallied enthusiastically to the Soviet , and soldiers in the capital also seemed to have more faith in it than in the Duma leaders . |
| 14 | The young people also wanted to have some enjoyment in their scarce free time and escape from the contradictions of their ‘ privileged ’ position . |
| 15 | He often seemed to have strange ideas about singers . |
| 16 | In such a climate it seems even more suitable to pursue the creation of a radical , insider ethnography and in the not too distant past this even seemed to have official support . |
| 17 | We then proceeded to have straight sex without using a condom . |
| 18 | We never seemed to have much trouble anyway . |
| 19 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 21 | Sammy slept under the navigator 's table and never seemed to have any reaction to the gyration of the aircraft or the attention of the natives with their flak and fighters outside . |