Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 2 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 3 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 4 | two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo . |
| 5 | for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now |
| 6 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |
| 7 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 8 | Coward or not , I could have plunged a dagger straight into his black treacherous heart . |
| 9 | ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules . |
| 10 | If so then it 's hardly surprising you did n't have to cancel a date tonight . ’ |
| 11 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 12 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 13 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 15 | But I knew there 'd have to come a time when I broke the news to him that the education system and I had split up . |
| 16 | They were the stuff of after-dinner conversation when , mellowed by brandy and candlelight , people confessed to fascinations they would n't have broached an hour earlier . |
| 17 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 18 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 19 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 20 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 21 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 23 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 24 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 25 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 26 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 27 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 28 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 29 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
| 30 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |