Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in rugby , the Afrikaners ' passion , the formation of a single non-racial administrative body is imminent ; the octogenarian rugby boss , Danie Craven , has long thought it a game for robust men of all races , and in 1988 angered Mr de Klerk by sending an emissary to contact , among others , the African National Congress — one of whose leaders is now working to dismantle the boycott . |
| 2 | Helen Gardner , writing in 1959 , is more concerned about the continued professionalization of English which has now rendered it a subject closed to all but experts , a condition for which the " new " as much as the " historical " critics must be blamed . |
| 3 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |
| 5 | I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know . |
| 7 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 8 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 9 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , I 've always made it a rule never to get drunk before going on stage . |
| 11 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 12 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 13 | Because you 've now got it the way you want it . |
| 14 | ‘ They 've even given it a full display window , Folly . |
| 15 | According to Miss Russell , Isabelle had forced him to treat her child as his own — had even made it a condition of their marriage . |
| 16 | Whereas I think cars now , because they give these guarantees on rust , they 've certainly given it a lot of thought , but , I mean there was certainly models that were riddled with problems were n't there ? |
| 17 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 18 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 19 | People have wrongly called it a microprocessor , when that really should be restricted to the processing unit itself rather than the complete microcomputer . |
| 20 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 21 | that 's right he 's still got it the bloke has , yeah . |
| 22 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
| 23 | The YCCC have always made it a policy to celebrate after each of their victories in the six-year ( continuing ) battle with the tannery , the city officials , and the Federal and State monitoring agencies . |
| 24 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 25 | The peculiar verisimilitude of the novel 's representation of reality , and the peculiarly hypnotic spell the novel casts upon its readers , have always made it an object of some suspicion , both morally and aesthetically . |
| 26 | I have always found it a great advantage to loathe my political opponents . |
| 27 | Its magnitude is given as 6.6 , but I have always found it an elusive binocular object . |
| 28 | Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics . |
| 29 | In such cases melatonin might be some sort of ‘ darkness indicator ’ and some have even called it an ‘ internal time-cue ’ . |
| 30 | A Hebridean island — it does sound like a place where one could work in peace , and they have actually called it an ‘ ivory tower ’ . |