Example sentences of "have [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 2 | We have treated it as a subject , but at the same time a method , the principal method whereby education may achieve its ultimate aim of giving a wide outlook on life . |
| 3 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 4 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |
| 5 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
| 6 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 7 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 8 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 9 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 10 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 11 | If you have to acquire it as a new one , it 's |
| 12 | They have roughed it around the world ever since , at an age when most people would be content with a game of bowls at Eastbourne . |
| 13 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 14 | Cone shells also have a stalked radula but have modified it into a kind of gun . |
| 15 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 16 | In our answer to question 4 we have included it as a current account balance in order to reduce Susan 's exposure vis-a -vis Bob . |
| 17 | I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology . |
| 18 | It contains nothing of real interest , and I have included it in the chart with Vela . |
| 19 | I have included it in the map with Eridanus . |
| 20 | I have included it in the map with Dorado . |
| 21 | You have to catch it on a certain place |
| 22 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 23 | I have always disagreed with those in the black community who , when they have applied for jobs and have not been successful , have blamed it on the colour of their skin . |
| 24 | You have dropped it on the floor . ’ |
| 25 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 26 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 27 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 28 | Erm , tell me if I 'm repeating it , because I have said it to a couple of other groups I know , especially the Wednesday group . |
| 29 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 30 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |