Example sentences of "to have a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week BBC2 's Newsnight happened to have a reporter travelling down the AI , the ‘ backbone of Britain ’ , and what he laid bare was a chain of slipped discs and abscesses . |
| 2 | But the Italian case will add to voices being heard in Britain , France , Holland and Germany that the European Community of the future is unlikely to have a blueprint labelled Maastricht . |
| 3 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 4 | He seemed to have a tendency to goad and that would quite clearly lead to trouble . |
| 5 | It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen . |
| 6 | ‘ The main problem is that some of my bones are crumbling and doctors have got to have a look to see what they can do for me . |
| 7 | And I said , Okay look , if I 'm gon na say something to anybody , I want to have a look show me what you 're talking about . |
| 8 | ‘ We have sent letters to everyone we believe has been in contact with the doctor but if anyone else feels they would like to have a test to put their mind at rest they should contact us . ’ |
| 9 | It must be better to have a publisher supporting your music , however big or small , than still being yet another unknown songwriter trying to get your first break . |
| 10 | For some unknown reason before the war we used to have a route change every year . |
| 11 | It takes a relatively modest amount of scientific evidence to have a substance banned . |
| 12 | The film , shot in England , follows the Yorks from story-book romance to separation and has had to have a £500,000 re-shoot to catch up on Fergie 's topless frolics . |
| 13 | Mrs. Ray Michie : Is the Minister aware that , in its evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee , which studied rural transport in 1980–82 , the STUCC asked the Committee to consider the need for it to have a remit to examine bus services so that there could be an integrated service in Scotland ? |
| 14 | She said : ‘ After three years training to have a race taken away through no fault of my own was devastating . |
| 15 | It is a good time to have a home built to suit one 's individual needs . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're too young to have a child playing ? ’ asked Daisy , fishing . |
| 17 | saying you 've got ta train somebody on the list for instance , you 've got to have a specialist to come in and do that so it 's not something you do yourself . |
| 18 | If there is an express prohibition on assigning the benefit it is important to distinguish between the benefit of the contract , namely the right of each party to have a contract performed in accordance with its terms , and the benefits which arise under the contract , namely those rights which arise incidentally from the performance of the contract and are sometimes known as the fruits of performance such as the right to claim for damages under the contract . |
| 19 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 20 | When there is insufficient money in the estate of the deceased person to pay for the funeral and if the person arranging the funeral is likely to have a problem meeting the cost then sections 4 and 5 of this factsheet should be read before making any arrangements . |
| 21 | I 've recently started to have a problem controlling red algae , especially on the coral sand . |
| 22 | Robertson is , like Levein , imagined to have a problem imposing himself on Roxburgh 's mind and has recently fallen further behind in the pecking order with the emergence of Eoin Jess at Aberdeen . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's that Midwestern winter as does it ; I was there in February once I nearly turned up my toes then except they 'd have snapped off … still it 's nice to have a banker dying early . ’ |
| 24 | I hung my head , glad to have a pretext to hide it from my mentor . |
| 25 | Human being s will be seen to have a psyche requiring a form of training which continues after the physical body matures . |
| 26 | Should you experience any of the symptoms over a prolonged period of time , it is always advisable to have a check-up to ensure that you do not have a condition which requires professional help . |
| 27 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 28 | Second , any true scholar is expected to have a capacity to respond to — and indeed share in — these humane qualities . |
| 29 | The answer according to the Glasgow Development Agency is to have a competition to design a tower of no great functional content , but of considerable civic impact . |
| 30 | People like Dad did n't struggle to make money and to live in a smart district of Leeds , in order to have a daughter living a dangerous , flashy , immoral life . |