Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’
2 Otherwise I 'd have to go home at 5.30 p.m. and I 'd have to start all over again . "
3 ‘ Means I do n't have to drive home at any rate , ’ she said .
4 When the patient returns to work , he will probably have to work part-time at first , as he gets used to the discipline and pressures of working again .
5 He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan .
6 I do n't think you should have come here at all . ’
7 If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time .
8 If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage .
9 Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’
10 Nutty knew that without Biddy they would have got nowhere at all with their idiosyncratic beasts .
11 ‘ I suppose most of your friends must have stayed there at one time or another , ’ she said casually .
12 If the developers of these walled refuges were bold enough to include small industries , perhaps also offering to connect young executives by computer and fax to the outside world , the inhabitants of clusterland would never have to leave home at all .
13 In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction .
14 It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared .
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