Example sentences of "to have [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest challenges in such a large company is to have everyone united behind a belief in a common goal . |
| 2 | Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg . |
| 3 | It was as if , thought Henry , she wished to have nothing to do with the dispute she knew this word would provoke . |
| 4 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 5 | We would couple this with an investigation to discover the real cause or causes of the high labour turnover ( which may turn out to have nothing to do with the immediate problem ) . |
| 6 | It 's not my business , but I strongly advise you to have nothing to do with the whole thing ; divorce can be very messy . ’ |
| 7 | Secretary Jackie Onstenk commented that it made ‘ an enormous difference ’ to have them living on the Down . |
| 8 | In addition to the Appropriation Accounts , there are many statutory bodies that have responsibilities to produce accounts , to have them audited by the C. and A.G. and to present the result to Parliament . |
| 9 | One way of preventing piglets picking things up is to have them born into a sterile bubble , and reared in squeaky-clean rooms . |
| 10 | Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems , and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law . |
| 11 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 12 | The landowner was letting the buildings return to dust , but no doubt he would be grateful to have them re-stored at no cost to himself . |
| 13 | The most consistent mistake with both these pieces of equipment — possibly because they are so simple — is , once again , to have them operated by the speaker . |
| 14 | The June 26 measure had been approved despite an attempt by ethnic Albanian deputies in Serbia to have them discussed by the Kosovo Assembly . |
| 15 | Here , and around the edges of a patio , you 'll probably want to have them wired to a permanently fixed outdoor socket . |
| 16 | He threatened repeatedly to have them removed from the Hearing for disrupting the proceedings . |
| 17 | Steve had talked of being a fatalist and if Fernando had the power to have them removed from the island that was fate and she was n't going to fight it . |
| 18 | The director of each society was required to submit its rules for approval to Mr Tidd Pratt the barrister who certified Saving Banks regulations , and afterwards to have them approved by the magistrates at quarter sessions . |
| 19 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 20 | We ought to have somebody pray for the people who wrote them . ’ |
| 21 | Ever a proponent of parliamentary freedom of speech , in 1621 Alford protested against the ‘ eyes over him to observe ’ , but refused to have himself cleared by the House at the end of the session : ‘ God forbid that snares should be laid for mens words … |
| 22 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 23 | I argued very hard to have you thrown to the wolves after the police found four low-lifes strewn around the locker room of that gym . |
| 24 | you know that band , yeah well , we used to have one come from the down , he used to tap onto the erm tried to get off and everybody stuck to it . |
| 25 | To have one standing in the corner of every room in the house is a tremendous help to an old person who can not bend ; although , of course , one will suffice , as it can be carried from one room to another when it is needed . |
| 26 | Flute was a mirthless man who often used words like ‘ conception ’ , ‘ subtext ’ , and ‘ seminal ’ , and also ‘ Jarry-esque ’ , which appeared to have something to do with a play called Ubu Roi . |
| 27 | ‘ I intend her to have something to do with the arts . |
| 28 | After some reflection , she was unable to offer any rule but said , quite correctly , ‘ It seems to have something to do with the verb . ’ |
| 29 | Just as he said , Farmer Plant 's teenage niece , Harriet , was delighted to have her to help in the stables , and promised to teach her all about the care and feeding of horses as well . |
| 30 | Annie must have used the house-phone to have her paged at the restaurant . |