Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 2 | At the moment , he would have given quite a lot to stay here , and never return to the other cities again . |
| 3 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 4 | This is hard , since on a busy day you will sometimes have to wait quite a while for the waiter to take your order or for the arrival of the food . |
| 5 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 6 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 7 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 8 | I think we 're gon na have to come home a bit early next Tuesday to make pan pancakes . |
| 9 | Daddy 'll have to come home a bit early to have it done . |
| 10 | Yeah , you 'll have to come home a bit er , a bit er |
| 11 | While the fundamentals of caddying may not have changed since Skip Daniels and Gene Sarazen strode the Prince 's links , the financial aspect has : whereas a caddie in the 1930s might have earned only a pittance for sharing an Open success , the modern-day caddie earns a healthy basic wage on the European tour , and can look forward to a percentage of the winnings . |
| 12 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 13 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 14 | The set culminates in an outrageously zany harmonisation of the famous ‘ O du lieber Augustin ’ , whose adventurousness may well have made even a composer like Prokofiev blanch . |
| 15 | We must have made quite a sight trailing along the road with scythes , rakes , forks , the sledge and the sweep , mowing machine , and our food in a basket . |
| 16 | The transformation of David ( David Naughton ) from nice New York Jewish boy to very scary werewolf is an outstanding achievement , with elaborate props and each stage exactly plotted and , despite a team of 30 stuntpersons , Naughton must have acted quite a lot of this himself . |
| 17 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 18 | ‘ You must have had quite a talk ! ’ smiled Belinda . |
| 19 | Also , he may have had quite a job finding it . " |
| 20 | ‘ They must have got quite a shock seeing a 4lb 6oz bird sunning itself on the garden wall , ’ said Gary . |
| 21 | I can only assume that the words were left out because an assurance ’ vigorously ’ to continue ’ fighting crime ’ would have raised only a horse laugh when offered by a Government with a record of this Government on this subject . |
| 22 | Er but usually you 'd have to give perhaps a drink of erm er water just , just warm water . |
| 23 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 24 | Law firms started to compete more fiercely with each other — through ‘ beauty parades ’ and even on price — in a way that would have appeared unseemly a decade earlier . |
| 25 | Amsterdam is such a lovely and compact city that if two or three days is all you have you will be able to get around the city and all the major sights without difficulty — but you will have gained only a glimpse of all the attractions on offer . |
| 26 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 27 | It was certainly not poor people who had lost these coins for each would have represented about a week 's wages . |
| 28 | He would have finished just a point short of an 18 maximum if he had not suffered engine failures in two races . |
| 29 | Richard could be turning his nightmares to profits , but his dad thinks they may have thrown away a fortune already . |
| 30 | I may have to stay here a while yet . |