Example sentences of "and [verb] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year .
2 They all look shopmade and tend to have unimaginative decorations on top .
3 Such adjectives belong to the popular , rather than learned , stratum of English vocabulary and tend to have emotive connotations , here largely pejorative .
4 We have bought an Aga , and intend to have central heating , probably oil-fired , as well as open fires .
5 Built to a 24½″ scale , the necks are maple and appear to have genuine rosewood fingerboards .
6 Thus in both menstruation and childbirth , a woman is associated with both life and death and deemed to have dangerous power over the fate of the foetus .
7 Havelock Wilson records the tactics of both sides in Liverpool in June and July 1889 : " I saw some of the principal owners at the beginning and endeavoured to have all questions settled on conciliatory lines .
8 The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him .
9 But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together .
10 Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough .
11 She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons .
12 So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance .
13 Some visually handicapped pupils have good central vision and seem to have little difficulty in reading , but poor peripheral vision can give them problems in managing their environment .
14 The White Welsh is generally rougher in coat than the White Park and tends to have bluish flecks and patches on the neck and shoulders rather than black .
15 Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily .
16 Mr Delors is said to have phoned Mr MacSharry and threatened to have any deal involving concessions voted down in Brussels .
17 Benny realized with a shock that he meant it , and began to have second thoughts .
18 He sounded coherent , but he was too ill and doped to have any idea what he was saying .
19 Thomas has been scratching his head a lot and appears to have head lice in this hair .
20 The piano is now moveable and appears to have seven keys that strike a note , but I always take my tambour , and am eternally grateful to Francis and Rita for including in our training , advice on ways of accompanying movement without a piano .
21 I realized what I was doing and decided to have this problem analyzed , and I traced it back to when I was in hospital as a child .
22 Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener .
23 Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back .
24 Go and send your telegram , and then come back and try to have some food when you can , ’ she said .
25 Vodafone Group Plc said yesterday it is to encourage the setting up of retail outlets that will offer a full range of cellular phones and after-sales service : it is not allowed to sell direct itself , but will jointly fund refurbishment and shopfitting of high street outlets with service providers and hopes to have 170 stores operating across the country by summer next year ; it looks to spend £10m over two years and aims for a shop on every major UK high street and up to 25 within the M25 London orbital motorway .
26 When the Australians arrived in 1989 , he seemed scarcely to be considered for the leadership , and appeared to have few advocates beyond the purlieus of Chelmsford and Colchester .
27 Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair .
28 Gascoigne threw down his bib after a practice match which his team lost 3-1 and appeared to have angry words with Zoff and assistant coach Giancarlo Oddi before team manager Maurizio Manzini was called in to mediate .
29 As part of the 1987 pay deal , Mr Hougham had sought to win agreement for the introduction of temporary workers to cope with seasonal variation in demand , the establishment of quality discussion groups and moves to have skilled men working on the production line .
30 In the early days of the Church , Christians suffered persecution and had to have great faith to survive the violent opposition they received .
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