Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within this climate , the management has had to make some difficult decisions . |
| 2 | The traditionalist camp has had to swallow some bitter pills . |
| 3 | ‘ Dropping a book to £9.99 from £15 does not make the public run out and flood the bookstores ; the book has got to have some other handle to it . ’ |
| 4 | In any case , if a writer has managed to put some key point rather well , why not both give him the credit for doing so , and at the same time avoid struggling to reinvent the wheel ? |
| 5 | What sense would it have made to have some white boy impose his interpretation on my experience ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What sense would it have made to have some white boy impose his interpretations on my experience ? ’ |
| 7 | For example , a student chosen might have had to overcome some specific learning difficulty to gain success in modules ; another might have achieved success despite little previous exposure to formal further education . |
| 8 | In order to be accorded the title of Messiah , and acclaimed as such by the populace , Jesus would have had to possess some legitimate claim . |
| 9 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 10 | That would have gone to pay some meagre way towards the debt . |
| 11 | Six months ago I would have loved to get some new sounds for my new rack from your magazine . |
| 12 | She would have liked to make some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind so she went out , closing the door behind her . |
| 13 | Instead , the Novice would wait until the start of a new season and , having managed to buy some appropriate clothes , would then ‘ appear ’ at the back of the terrace . |
| 14 | How could he have failed to find some extra business for her ? |
| 15 | While the scenario he had painted held some undeniable attractions , she was not tempted . |
| 16 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 17 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 18 | you 've got to paint some more pictures though have n't you first ? |
| 19 | Erm on the other side there are some definite overspends which we 've got to do some more work on . |
| 20 | And over the page here we 've got got some more . |
| 21 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
| 22 | Right I 've got to go into Superdrug , I 've got to get some more hairspray |
| 23 | I 've got to get some more , do you want a drink ? |
| 24 | But , and we 've got to get some excellent ones . |
| 25 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 26 | I 've got to have some new official piece of evidence before I can go in and start interrogating those old sods . |
| 27 | so , that 's the undercoat , but God knows when it 'll get erm sprayed properly cos you 've got to have some decent weather |
| 28 | Martinho had had to do some quick talking but none of them had been executed on the spot . |
| 29 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 30 | And when , by good fortune , they had contrived to attend some glittering function Cynthia would delight in describing it , with especial reference to the people she had met , the important positions they occupied , and the deep respect in which they held her husband . |