Example sentences of "they [verb] to have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 2 | Do they prefer to have a choice ? |
| 3 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 4 | If they intend to have a go , it 'll take weeks to organize , but that does n't matter . |
| 5 | Well I sort of gave them a choice , do they want to nominate who does overtime or do they want to have a cat or do they want to pay , get paid less and they said they 'll get paid less . |
| 6 | They tend to have a consciousness of kind , a feeling of kinship with other group members . |
| 7 | They tend to have a quality of immediacy and interest and they are , generally , believed . |
| 8 | They tend to have a lot more disk space than memory . |
| 9 | Unless they mean to have a marina here are they ? |
| 10 | They want to have a word with you . ’ |
| 11 | The sheer fact that they want to have a go , they want to improve ; they want to look at their work is a very good thing . |
| 12 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 13 | They want to have an audience but I do n't think they are worried about an ever-increasing one , ’ he says . |
| 14 | — A reduction in the size of the fee that companies who wish to be a part of the LTA 's Ball Pool need to pay if they want to have the right to bid for LTA tournaments . |
| 15 | They expect to have the stuff ready in July . |
| 16 | Considering the other sensory systems of cetaceans , they appear to have no sense of smell , for they lack any obvious olfactory organ , olfactory nerve or olfactory cerebral centre . |
| 17 | They appear to have no need of an anemone and usually ignore any placed in the aquarium with them . |
| 18 | They appear to have no effect at all on pigs , rats or guinea-pigs . |
| 19 | They appear to have a stem : could they be related to the crinoids ? |
| 20 | The rocks of the mantle are rather curious in one respect — they appear to have the properties of both liquids and solids . |
| 21 | They seemed to have a secret between them that I could n't share . ’ |
| 22 | They seemed to have a significance independent of the self-satisfied barristers and scurrying clerks who peopled them now . |
| 23 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 24 | They seemed to have a show every week or , if not , were invariably guests on other comedians ' shows or the light relief on those interminable chat shows . |
| 25 | Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others . |
| 26 | They deserve to have a father around . ’ |
| 27 | They seem to have no colour , although yesterday afternoon 's image is still strong — the canyon glowing deep red in reflected light from the walls , the interior an inferno in the midday sun . |
| 28 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 29 | There is also the difference between employees who are in offices , who for some reason or other , I 've always found and still do , they seem to have a notion that they 're a different class to others who work for wages . |
| 30 | Above and bottom left : These Long-finned Koi were pictured in the USA , where they seem to have a taste for the more exotic coldwater fish and none of our traditional fears about ‘ breaking the rules ’ . |