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

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1 I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one .
2 As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here .
3 A muzzled ferret has on a number of occasions evicted a little owl .
4 spends all she has on a summer decades ago .
5 yeah , well he obviously has on an R S two thousand twenty , twenty one
6 … how much soever Arbitrary Power may be dislik 'd on a Throne , Not Milton himself wou 'd cry up Liberty to poor Female Slaves , or plead for the Lawfulness of Resisting a Private Tyranny .
7 ‘ You was breathing fire and brimstone ! ’ she guessed , well knowing the effect a Puck Fair fortune-telling might have on a customer .
8 It is perhaps not widely appreciated the effect deforestation can have on a country like Ethiopia .
9 Was she aware of the effect her large , amber-coloured eyes , her curving red lips , might have on a man ?
10 ‘ The worst situation you can have on a motorway is vehicles standing still as others approach the scene of a crash . ’
11 Easy to see what effect sudden nausea at even the thought of the big glass would have on a life lived in this way .
12 Renaissance , an annual symposium , is earnest , slightly religious and very southern ; you get the feeling that its tone is set by the kind of conversations about family and country that businessmen in Greenville , South Carolina would have on a Sunday after church or a round of golf .
13 Finally , in section 3.4 , we describe some of the major social and economic costs that a high level of unemployment may have on a nation .
14 ‘ And after all , every player wants to be in a winning team and they know how much influence Gazza can have on a game to enable them to achieve victory .
15 Taylor has been guilty before of overlooking the impact Gazza can have on a game .
16 Oliver 's tone , shocked , febrile , had about as much effect on Emmie as a quotation from Habeas Corpus would have on a crowd of hungry cannibals .
17 In 1973 I began investigating what effect the uncertainty principle would have on a particle in the curved space-time near a black hole .
18 ‘ I knew she 'd have on an apron , ’ Carlie said to the social worker .
19 ‘ Fenella and I would set out a day later , ’ he said , looking at Fenella and thinking that she was rather a nice sort of companion to be having on a journey .
20 The best insurance is to have on a window a sticker of the Shahs great enemy , the turbulent , intransigent priest , Ayatollah Khomeini or , even better , to play one of the tapes on which , from his exile near paris , he exhorts the Shahs overthrow .
21 If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’
22 Just the car to have on an island full of lots of narrow , high-hedged twisty roads and a 60-miles-per-hour speed limit .
23 To highlight her legs , she also had on a pair of black high heels .
24 He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight .
25 Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs .
26 Turakina had on a gown into which were woven gold and silver threads .
27 George , usually a sloppy dresser at weekends — in an expensive sort of way — had on a weekday suit in his usual Prince-of-Wales check and a Dragoon Guards tie .
28 Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead .
29 The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels .
30 He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery .
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