Example sentences of "they [vb past] to have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 2 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 3 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 4 | They seemed to have a significance independent of the self-satisfied barristers and scurrying clerks who peopled them now . |
| 5 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 6 | They seemed to have a secret between them that I could n't share . ’ |
| 7 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 8 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 9 | They seemed to have a show every week or , if not , were invariably guests on other comedians ' shows or the light relief on those interminable chat shows . |
| 10 | ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be . |
| 11 | Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others . |
| 12 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 13 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 14 | They claimed to have the weapon purely for self-defence but also had a set of viciously spiked knuckle-dusters . |
| 15 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 16 | They decided to have a meeting . |
| 17 | The removal of the tumour made no difference to my legs , so thinking the misplaced disc might after all be the cause , they decided to have a go at that . |
| 18 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 19 | ‘ When his fellow inmates in H4 and H7 heard of the this callous and deplorable decision they decided to have a peaceful protest . |
| 20 | They were n't absolutely sure , but for a while afterwards they appeared to have a small surface radar contact one nautical mile east of Titron . |
| 21 | In ISIS 2 a lot of people received heparin , although not randomised , in addition to aspirin and thrombolysis and they appeared to have a lower mortality than those who did not get heparin . |
| 22 | For the most part they were nominally Muslims now but they appeared to have an idea of torturable classes . |
| 23 | They proved to have no stomach for a fight with only Steve Regeling showing any semblance of spirit . |
| 24 | They proved to have a vital , if at times unspectacular , role to play in the organisation of war . |
| 25 | They preferred to have a quick yoghurt at their desks and spend the rest of the time shopping . |
| 26 | So people would be sitting round four corners of this , they had to have a napkin over all their laps which they did . |
| 27 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 28 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 29 | This stipulated that they had to have no less than 100,000 members " with the signature and number of the election list for each one of them " . |
| 30 | They had to have an organization , I thought , and perhaps they could help . |