Example sentences of "have [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It will then have to contend with a challenge in the British courts over the legal status of Britain 's opt-out from the social chapter .
2 The lemon became real for you ; your imagination tricked your body into believing it would have to cope with a mouthful of pure citrus .
3 We will have to cope with a backlash . ’
4 Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire .
5 The doors were fastened with a padlock which a child of five could have picked with a paper clip .
6 He had read a file on Stepan and Ilya Holovich that would have come with a dust coat out of a Home Office basement reserved for the histories of Aliens ( Naturalized ) .
7 In any case , William Tell would have shot with a cross-bow , not a barebow !
8 Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten .
9 Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor .
10 My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape .
11 ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here .
12 ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself .
13 I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while .
14 I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth .
15 He knew he could really have done with a saw .
16 He could have done with a saw .
17 ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’
18 It immediately grabbed my nose and twisted it round as it would have done with a fish .
19 How they could have done with a win this afternoon .
20 What would I have done with a mother who smothered me in love ? ’
21 Walt Whitman would have merged with a kerb like that .
22 ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock .
23 I would have thought with a child that it would be far better to be N H S.
24 Our relationship does n't have to do with a cause , Father Tom ; it 's based on fear and guilt and power — like all true relationships .
25 If Wright had taken as much care with his finishing as his feud with Saints defender Ken Monkou , Arsenal would have escaped with a point .
26 Modigliani would never have stayed with a nonentity .
27 First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates .
28 For example , a manager might have to deal with a staff problem , or give instructions to a subordinate about what to do next .
29 I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement .
30 She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself .
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