Example sentences of "have [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 2 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 3 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 4 | If they stay below , the issuers will have to borrow at current higher interest rates to repay the bonds . |
| 5 | When considered in relation to the length of time you would have to wait at any particular junction in order to observe an accident it is probably accurate to characterise road accidents as low frequency occurrences . |
| 6 | NHS dietician Helen Marshall did n't see why she should have to retire at 60 . |
| 7 | I 'll have to go at nine . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly , any reasonable number of players can have to go at this game , taking it in turns to bat and bowl . |
| 9 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 10 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 11 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 12 | ‘ Which means we do n't have to work at all , ’ Aidan said cheerfully . |
| 13 | You do n't have to work at all . " |
| 14 | This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words . |
| 15 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 16 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 17 | Most criminals would have panicked at that moment . |
| 18 | I 'm not saying the defence was crap , just not as good as it might have looked at first glance . |
| 19 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 20 | Well it 'll be one-to-one , but I would have looked at that as many-to- one , because , one child has come from more than one parent . |
| 21 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 22 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |
| 23 | Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment . |
| 24 | In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings . |
| 25 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 26 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 27 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 28 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 29 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 30 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |