Example sentences of "have [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each member has one democratically elected representative on the board , who , in turn , has one vote either to admit or reject new members . |
| 2 | There are , however , some hostile tribes far in the interior , but I trust he has sufficient prudence not to venture within their district . |
| 3 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 4 | But she still has n't had any body in to see it |
| 5 | She was a beauty and he 'd often wanted to steal a kiss , but had had enough sense not to try . |
| 6 | The British Medical Association , well they 'll have ample ammunition now to say that boxing is no longer a sport . |
| 7 | I said to aunty Jean , you wo n't be having that chap round to do your en suite will you ? |
| 8 | I think we 're gon na phone them up tonight , can I have some money please to go down the chippie ? |
| 9 | Well you wo n't have much time now to eat |
| 10 | Your government did n't have any courage then to back up it 's own man , and force through some changes , and so I do n't know what your policy is , it seems to change every couple of years . |
| 11 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 12 | They do not have enough energy even to heal their battered wounded bodies . |
| 13 | She appeared to have sufficient buoyancy forward to lift her over the next wave instead of burying the foredeck , something which normally prefaces a broach . |
| 14 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 15 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 16 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 17 | She was angry , for sure , but a closer look would have revealed a heaviness in the mouth , a darkness under her eyes : the face of someone who had cried a good deal recently , and had some crying yet to do . |
| 18 | Johannsen was twenty metres to her left , only a little further up the cliff than her : they both had some climbing still to do . |
| 19 | Theda had almost to run to keep up with his long strides , and had much ado both to keep hold of the lantern and prevent the mass of the gentleman 's greatcoat from falling off her shoulders . |
| 20 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 21 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 22 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 23 | After sitting in the stalls and watching the summer show , the other two were convinced that they had good reason enough to want him . |
| 24 | I had good reason then to suspect that it could well be . |
| 25 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 26 | I never met him and , after what I heard about him , I never had any ambition so to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the murderer only had enough evidence now to decide on revenge ? ’ |
| 28 | But it was a lot of money all the same , and Harry had enough sense not to go throwing it around . |
| 29 | Fortunately Halima had enough sense not to panic , and just stood still until the offending wire was cut and she was released . |
| 30 | We have this meeting tomorrow to decide whether we go ahead with the tournament or not . ’ |