Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy . |
| 2 | ‘ My father would n't have given a lift to anyone . |
| 3 | Right now she 'd have given the nightclub to anyone who could restore calm to a pulse which had gone completely haywire and a brain in danger of short-circuiting . |
| 4 | Perhaps — but the years in Peru will hopefully have given the lie to that one . |
| 5 | ‘ But when could Mr Pipkin have given the poison to Sir Thomas ? ’ asked Auguste reasonably . |
| 6 | The spectacle of a White-dominated state defying Afro-Asian opinion may have given the impulse to the decision to fly to Vietnam . |
| 7 | SIR — Jean Howard ( letter , April 8 ) may have given the impression to your readers that her knowledge of Ultra material ‘ never released to the public ’ proves her theory about the military insignificance of Tito and the Partisans . |
| 8 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 9 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 10 | Your Mr may have explained the position to Joe of Samuel McCauls Limited when he was over in Northern Ireland last September , but Joe did not inform me of your company 's position . |
| 11 | Similarly , if you wanted to pronounce the word you would have to transmit the 538-code to the speech output system , so that the appropriate phonological representation can be generated . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have to wear a skirt to the office . ’ |
| 13 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 14 | In 841 – 2 , the prominent position of Adalard 's brother Gerald at Lothar 's court may have eased the route to a settlement between Charles and Lothar . |
| 15 | Well all I can suggest is the case is adjourned for the week we 'll just have to arrange a solicitor to be here . |
| 16 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 17 | ‘ Had either Syria or the Palestinians been shown to be involved , ’ he said , ‘ it would have added a complication to the peace conference , perhaps provoking an Israeli walk-out . ’ |
| 18 | She also knew that she should have reported the foul to Mike , who would then make an official complaint to the umpire , but she was too angry . |
| 19 | Keith said : ‘ If a wave had caught it it would have smashed the craft to pieces . |
| 20 | Keeping the bottle in an inverted position Dom Pérignon would have carried the Champagne to the table , before removing the cork and releasing the sediment . |
| 21 | What was proposed was not the submersion of party in a wider unit , but a parliament of collaboration between independent groups ; no more was discussed in 1918 and , despite the strength of the arguments for further collaboration , they would scarcely have carried the party to a greater commitment . |
| 22 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 23 | We would have expected the fraction to be approximately one-third , because Kleisthenes divided Attica into three , not four : city , coast and inland . |
| 24 | The conference also approved the Britain in the Modern World policy review , which proposes : Cancelling one of the four planned Trident submarines ; Putting other Trident missiles and Polaris into international arms reduction talks ; Opposing the modernisation of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe ; A commitment to continued Nato membership , while arguing for the abandonment of its flexible response strategy ; Aiming to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000 ; Adoption of a policy of no first use of British nuclear weapons ; Decisions The conference yesterday : Rejected a motion which would have committed the party to phasing out nuclear power stations within 15 years . |
| 25 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 26 | Last week 's article ‘ What 's wrong with German Science ’ ( p 277 ) should have contained an acknowledgement to the generous help of Dr Christoph Schneider now at the Wissenschaftsrat ( Science Council ) in Köln . |
| 27 | These facts were undisputed and one might have supposed the case to be a perfectly simple and straightforward one . |
| 28 | Public law remedies will enable him or her to establish the illegality of the order ; but , unless the applicant can take advantage of some statutory provision for compensation , he or she will have to establish an entitlement to damages in private law if the damage is to be made good by monetary compensation . |
| 29 | If Puddephat had been at the flat in Paris on Friday evening , he could hardly have squeezed a trip to Germany in between . |
| 30 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |