Example sentences of "[adv] to have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 2 | If you are in this position , or even if you are lucky enough to have obtained a place on a re-entry course , it may help to make a tentative assessment of the skills you feel need to be reassessed in order to practise safely . |
| 3 | OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title . |
| 4 | He began , " It is bad enough to have to give a talk at 9.00 am , anyway , without having to watch yourself doing it . " |
| 5 | It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant . |
| 6 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 7 | Extreme discomfort in the legs , and sometimes the arms , leads sufferers to constantly move their legs around in bed , resulting in insomnia for themselves and anyone unfortunate enough to have to share a bed with them . |
| 8 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 9 | It feels good just to have had a talk . |
| 10 | Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice . |
| 11 | Most notable among the latter were numerous gold bees or cicadas , which appear once to have adorned a cloak , a small bull 's head , also made of gold , and a signet-ring , which identified the occupant of the tomb . |
| 12 | The Ife smiths were so self-confident that they seem always to have allowed a casting to cool slowly inside the mould instead of splashing cold water over it so it could be opened and checked quickly , which is the usual modern African practice , The slow cooling allowed the metal crystals to grow . |
| 13 | She would have liked always to have had a baby . |
| 14 | Steve Hislop , who was also to have ridden a Kawasaki at the Brand 's meeting , will not now be there for there is no bike for him in view of the fact that all efforts are being put behind Farmer . |
| 15 | Wilfrid withdrew into Mercia and from there resumed his appeal in person at Rome where he appears now to have expressed a readiness to relinquish his bishopric provided he could retain Ripon and Hexham ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 51 ) . |
| 16 | Even to have imagined a destination would have been to raise the question , why this place rather than that ? |
| 17 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 18 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 19 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 20 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 21 | The fourth and fifth editions followed in 1741 and 1747 , although Thomas Martyn confessed never to have seen a copy of the latter . |
| 22 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |