Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions obviously have to go through the A&R Director , but I do n't have accountants breathing down my neck ’ . |
| 2 | So that 's really you literally only have to listen to the phone call and turn up . |
| 3 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 4 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 5 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 6 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 7 | Many of these animals not only have to contend with a changing landscape due to human development ( ! ) but also human greed . |
| 8 | No as soon as it gets anywhere past the top , you only have to have about a four inch dick . |
| 9 | It was miraculous to find so young a girl , of Juliet 's own age , with a depth of passion which could by rights only have belonged to an older woman ; the problem of casting the ideal was solved . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case , ’ he said blandly , ‘ we only have to worry about the guard outside my door . ’ |
| 11 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |
| 12 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 13 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 14 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 15 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 17 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 18 | You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve . |
| 19 | - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’ |
| 20 | If you want an illustration of that you only have to look at the words of President Reagan . |
| 21 | You only have to look at the number of visitors going to places such as Nepal er to see the increase there , to see how important this connection be . |
| 22 | You only have to look at the restaurants that are popular now — bistros , even the workman 's cafe . ’ |
| 23 | If anyone wants to judge the competence of government in industry they only have to look at the results of our nationalised companies as a guide . |
| 24 | We only have to look at the interest being shown , especially in public sector institutions , in recruiting their students from a wide social background . |
| 25 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 26 | You only have to look at the press and television to see how impatient many in our society are . |
| 27 | Inevitably there will be much improved functionality , and more features — you only have to look at the difference between DOS 4.01 and DOS 5 to see that . |
| 28 | ‘ You only have to look at the number of players with top clubs in the present squad — Arsenal 's Steve Morrow is another example — and it 's obvious there 's hope for the future . |
| 29 | You only have to look at the unemployment amongst married women who would like to be teachers . |
| 30 | Anyway , I only have to look around the Dreamflight group to see lots of children who are worse off than me , ’ she said . |