Example sentences of "[vb past] to have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | On yet another impulse , she stopped to have a quick look , because it just might have mentioned where Slane was , might n't it ? |
| 3 | During their pre-Christmas cocktail rounds , Western diplomats have bantered to their Soviet colleagues that Romania was the one country where the Soviet Union deserved to have a free hand . |
| 4 | Its strong beat had been a friend beside his ear at night as he lay thinking , or when he woke to have a quiet smoke in the darkness . |
| 5 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 6 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 7 | Presbyterians retained a consciousness of their Scottish origins and came to have a significant presence in the local economy and finance institutions , predominating in the North and East . |
| 8 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 9 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 10 | More and more , ever since Irangate , Iran seemed to have a crucial role to play in the release of American and French hostages . |
| 11 | This attractive young Woodbrook player , three down on the 13th , seemed to have a superb match against Eavan Higgins all wrapped up after jumping ahead for the first time on the 17th , but lost her ‘ thinking cap ’ completely down the last . |
| 12 | It was this manner of his , more than anything else , that seemed to have a therapeutic benefit . |
| 13 | At one moment he even seemed to have a small advantage , but after 44 moves a draw was agreed in a level position . |
| 14 | People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play . |
| 15 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 16 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 17 | He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates . |
| 18 | The High Authority seemed to have a wide brief on fiscal matters such as taxes and levies , as well as upon production and restrictive practices . |
| 19 | The drawers were traditionally constructed using olivewood , which seemed to have a similar grain pattern to the ebony , but in negative . |
| 20 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 21 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 22 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 23 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 24 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 25 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 26 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 27 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
| 29 | Areas with a relatively high density of children also seemed to have a higher incidence ( table V ) , but a combined analysis was dominated by the recent oil impact measure . |
| 30 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |