Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 2 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 3 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 4 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 5 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
| 6 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 7 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 8 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 9 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 10 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 11 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 12 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 13 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 14 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 15 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 16 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 17 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 18 | Encamped for long spells in the Lansdowne territory Ballymena should have had a comfortable interval lead but McAleese uncharacteristically missed a penalty at either end of the first half . |
| 19 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 20 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 21 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 22 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 23 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 24 | [ 5 ] So the dream vision must have had a tremendous impact on his perception of the world . |
| 25 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
| 26 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 27 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 28 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 29 | We fill grocery cartons with shoes that have the shape of living feet , a bulge on the left where she must have had a swollen joint ; I did not notice it while she was alive . |
| 30 | The rather un-Byronic 30-year-old Dustin Hoffman must have had a similar experience on the morning of 22 December 1967 when he opened the newspapers . |