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Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world .
2	I have no idea why it has come to bear that name .
3	His word has got to have that place of authority in our lives .
4	Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies .
5	A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones .
6	The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’
7	28 ( 1 ) The basis for the assessment of damages referred to in section 27(3) is the difference in value , determined as at the time immediately before the residential occupier ceased to occupy the premises in question as his residence , between — ( a ) the value of the interest if the landlord in default determined on the assumption that the residential occupier continues to have the same right to occupy the premises as before that time ; and ( b ) the value of that interest determined on the assumption that the residential occupier has ceased to have that right .
8	Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages .
9	The Minister has failed to counter that argument .
10	And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ?
11	There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning .
12	In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance .
13	Either that or you will have decided to build that extension you 've both wanted for so long to put that rattan furniture in , and when it 's finished discover that the blessed stuff does n't fit at all .
14	If the dinosaurs and thecodonians were superior to the types that went before them , they may never have had to demonstrate that fact .
15	Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing .
16	‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more .
17	I 'd probably have had to compensate that bloke if you 'd broken it , and professional photographic equipment costs a devil of a lot , you know . ’
18	driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently .
19	I fancy that he would not have cared to make that argument in Budapest or in Prague , and I find it difficult to make a distinction between the two .
20	There are , however , a number of provisions contained in TA 1988 , Part XV ( ss660-689 ) which seek to tax the income arising from the trust property upon the settlor , even though he may have attempted to alienate that income for tax purposes .
21	A registrar having made that order , and the administrators having refused to disclose that statement to the accountants , the accountants applied to the court for leave under rule 9.5 of the Rules of 1986 to inspect the statement of grounds and to set aside the registrar 's order .
22	They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it .
23	What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic .
24	Fabia , although she would have liked to ask that question , knew that they were not well enough acquainted for her to ask , or pass any comment that was more than a surface one .
25	And she might even have managed to survive that sort of difficult scenario if it had n't been for the alarming , almost intimidating atmosphere engendered by Ross .
26	She could n't think ; her mind had stopped doing that sort of thing ; she could only wait till her arms and legs felt like moving again .
27	She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman .
28	And they had come to feel that pulse .
29	She had come to recognize that silence , to smell it , almost .
30	I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied .