Example sentences of "to have [verb] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were lucky , Mrs Carson declared , to have received such an invitation . |
| 2 | Carbonate deposition on the Great Bahama Bank is said to have averaged half a metre per thousand years , even though most of the sediment is continuously swept into deeper water . |
| 3 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 4 | Dr Kosterlitz and Dr Hughes reasoned that nature was unlikely to have produced such a lock without also evolving a key . |
| 5 | Judging from his stock , funerals must have held some position of importance to have merited such an impressive display of hatchments . |
| 6 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 7 | The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling . |
| 8 | It 's a bit naughty is n't it to have had such a good game and er |
| 9 | To have closed such a gap the niggled gentleman must have swiped the juice from his companions ' lips the moment we passed and kick-started them into a sprint . |
| 10 | The budget gives them a get-out option but the CPL and Marjorie Roberts are grinning like Cheshire cats to have extracted such a promise . |
| 11 | Sean must have driven home with dire tales to have brought such a gathering to the bus stop . |
| 12 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 13 | To have provided such an advance on existing theories is no mean achievement . |
| 14 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 15 | She is as much a part of the family as Mrs Lewis 's own baby sons … we think she is very fortunate to have found such a wonderfully happy home . ’ |
| 16 | On the whole he seems to have found this an unrewarding period professionally as well as personally , which drove him , like George Somerset in A Laodicean , to indulge in ‘ an old enthusiasm for poetical literature ’ . |
| 17 | He was lucky to have led such an ordered life . |
| 18 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |
| 19 | Archway is one of only a handful of schools in the country to have taken such a strong stand against the Government . |
| 20 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 21 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 22 | What a madman Frankenstein was to have created such a thing , and to hope to keep its existence a secret ! |
| 23 | On hearing of this from Dick Crossman , I said that to have lost such an opportunity was unforgivable ! |
| 24 | Everyone said how lucky she was to have snared such a prize as the marquis , but she would have given anything to have changed places with Mary Waters , her maid , who was fat , plain and single . |
| 25 | The IMF was understood to have urged such a devaluation , when Algerian representatives visited Washington earlier in the month . |
| 26 | How fortunate Paul was to have married such a woman ! |