Example sentences of "to have [verb] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we 're going to have to borrow one from the , and then put a minus one , put that one there , leaves five , and minus one , minus two , leaves , ca n't do that anyway , so you 're going to have to borrow this one |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , ’ they retort , ‘ it was with some amusement that I read the views … with astonishment … with disgust … self-appointed guardians of the public conscience … fashionable cant … appear to have forgotten those who , in two world wars … ’ |
| 3 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 4 | For him to have done this he would have had to deny the teaching of the Old Testament . |
| 5 | We seem to have missed this one somehow . |
| 6 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 7 | It produces a good number of peaches every August but the greenhouse is in desperate need of replacement and she does n't have to , want to have to put another one in that position so is there anything cheap , she says , that she could do to help the tree to survive and fruit in a large open garden in Preston in Lancashire without the greenhouse , Walter ? |
| 8 | I do n't want to have to disturb this one . |
| 9 | But while ( 57 ) is certainly ungrammatical , this is much less clearly true , if at all , of cases where happy is properly marked as non-restrictive : ( 58 ) Stephen , happy , seemed to have recovered all his lost energy |
| 10 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 11 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Lee laughs , ‘ most people in the know seem to have sussed that one . |
| 13 | Susan was quite well now ; at least , she had recovered from the effect of nursing their father through that long , heart-breaking illness , but she seemed to have lost all her spirit . |
| 14 | Shaw claimed to have lost all her midwifery earnings in the explosion , and a total of over £3,000 . |
| 15 | ‘ All my inspiration seems to have dried up since Hamish left and I seem to have lost all my confidence as a woman . |
| 16 | You happen to have chosen this one : Now this is a very interesting equation indeed . |
| 17 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |