Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] to have [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August .
3 The Leeds manager always appeared to have a slight reservation about the gifted Frenchman 's ability to adapt to England .
4 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 .
5 Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain .
6 Cranston always seemed to have a fear of small boys .
7 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 .
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