Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 2 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 3 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 4 | But while that social ease can work in his favour , he has had to temper it by becoming an earnest , moderate , church-going swot . |
| 5 | The machine can completely fail to work because no-one has bothered to test it before the day . |
| 6 | No-one has bothered to tax it since 1989 . |
| 7 | Where an application under the Act for a grant or renewal of a licence or extension of permitted hours , etc. , is submitted too late for consideration by a board at a particular meeting , and the applicant has been rejected by the clerk , who has refused to place it before the board for their consideration , that decision may be subject to appeal under either 5.39 ( see M. Milne Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 ) if the particular application was subject to an appeal under 5.39 or to a judicial review if the type of application does not allow of an appeal under 5.39 ( see Main v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 305 ; Tait v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 340 ) . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , I rarely do , but she has begun to take it for granted . |
| 9 | And she 'd forgotten to give it to you . |
| 10 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 11 | They went mad , they told us that we 'd got to take it to National Tyres , took it there , twenty three pound fifty it cost us . |
| 12 | Gloria had told her she 'd got to keep it for ever . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here . |
| 14 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 15 | He was an old hand at knowing how to steal his audiences ; he 'd managed to do it with Hanna Brunner last year and she was experienced . |
| 16 | The Bradys would have to agree to hold it in their house or not at all . |
| 17 | If I tell you a story you 'd have to agree to tell it to somebody else . |
| 18 | And surely he would n't have omitted to teach it to her if he had planted her as another spy for them . |
| 19 | Okay there might be a different way of getting there an an and they might er would n't have sought to do it through ca class conflict but they were as revolutionary . |
| 20 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 21 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 22 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 24 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 25 | What we will never know is what price Ford will have to pay to get it to the top spot . |
| 26 | Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity . |
| 27 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 28 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 29 | I 'd have liked to prolong it by asking you to supper , but … ’ |
| 30 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |