Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 2 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 3 | You should n't have mixed it with whisky , Marjorie said . |
| 4 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 5 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 6 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't have done it without help from a Ministry grant and my brother Matthew . |
| 8 | I think she might have done it without regret . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Could someone have done it on purpose ? ’ he asked . |
| 10 | In Jones v. Padavatton [ 1969 ] 1 W.L.R. 328 at 333 , above , p. 186 , Salmon L.l. said of Shadwell v. Shadwell : ‘ I confess that I should have decided it without hesitation in accordance with the views of Byles l. , but this is of no consequence . |
| 11 | He must simply have said it for effect ; after all , dramatic effects were clearly his favourite way of expressing himself . |
| 12 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 13 | As has been mentioned ( Chapter 3 , 3.3.1 ) , because management knows the business ( some of them will usually have operated it at board level ) , the vendors may expect to provide Newco with less warranty and indemnity protection than on an " arm's-length " sale . |
| 14 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 15 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 16 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 17 | But you see I , I 'd have preferred it on back wall . |
| 18 | Yet , said Mr. Watkinson , Lord Bridge can hardly have had it in mind that the private law right which he plainly regarded as coming into existence when the duty laid down in section 65(2) arose could give rise to a public law duty as to the manner in which the private law right was to be satisfied . |
| 19 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 20 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 21 | Well I thought you would have got it in black and white . |
| 22 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 23 | Another man would have kicked it to hell . |
| 24 | High heels would have elevated it to borderline evening wear but she had n't brought heels with her so she decided on gold leather flip-flops . |
| 25 | Oh , we could have consigned it to memory if we 'd set our minds to it , but we did n't . |
| 26 | ‘ You wo n't have appreciated it at night , but the view over the gardens is breathtaking . |
| 27 | Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did . |
| 28 | On the same day , the Irish government promised a detailed study of the loophole in the extradition law , which prevented extradition for possession of , but would have allowed it for use of , a firearm . |
| 29 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 30 | Just a minute — oh , bother , I must have left it at home . |