Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 2 | The pupils were said to have no right of entry into the museum ( nor , it was said , did they have access to a certain ‘ necessary article ’ ) . |
| 3 | Several of his Rembrandt drawings were said to have a provenance from the Six collection in Amsterdam , and other purchases were made from distinguished contemporary sales such as those of the Earl of Arundel , Sir Peter Lely [ q.v . ] , |
| 4 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 5 | Yet even before the project got under way , British pressure groups were lobbying to have the enterprise suppressed . |
| 6 | They were made to have a bath and encouraged to wash the shirts they were wearing . |
| 7 | The wheels within wheels began to turn , and efforts were made to have the sentence reduced . |
| 8 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 9 | So we were going to have a sketch . |
| 10 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 11 | And then we were going to have a day shopping in Ken . |
| 12 | But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos . |
| 13 | That 's cos you were going to have a look |
| 14 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 15 | Carrie thought it was partly because they were going to have a farewell tea at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 16 | All Saints , they were going to have a concert were n't they . |
| 17 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 18 | You know they were going to have a meal out and |
| 19 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 20 | I thought we were going to have a visitor in the boot . |
| 21 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 22 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 23 | The main purpose of the consultation exercise was surely to ensure the proposed changes were going to have the backing of the people affected by them , and until this episode of high-handed secrecy , it appeared to have worked . |
| 24 | Mahmud could be heard wondering whether they were going to have the Druid instead of packed lunch . |
| 25 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 26 | They were going to have an identification parade . |
| 27 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 28 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 29 | The two Vehicle Examiners , who were reputed to have no conversation except about cars , squatted side by side , their backs against the steel book racks , and talked cars together with desperate eagerness . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the safety of the solutions was improved over the findings of the 1984 evaluation : only 0.4% — 10.9% of solutions tested between early 1987 and early 1989 were found to have a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l , as compared with 14.7% — 25.6% found in 1984 . |