Example sentences of "[adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 2 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 3 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 4 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 5 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 6 | Every piece of bad news is seized upon and trumpeted , all good news is turned upside down to have its dark potential minutely examined . |
| 7 | I remember Elizabeth Thursfield with John Richard and Anthony , waiting anxiously for Rupert to come out of Burma , and John Richard coming down to have lessons with me . |
| 8 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 9 | Committee meetings , for instance , are conventionally recorded in writing not on tape ; certain forms of legal contract must be written down to have the ‘ force of law ’ ( a practice whose specific historical and ideological origins have been well described by Clanchy amongst others ) . |
| 10 | She and her husband moved further away from the town centre , to a spot where they could see the fields , and settled down to have five children . |
| 11 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 12 | So we we moved towards the sound of the glass , and there 's there 's two people in the the garden , so we went down to have a look at them . |
| 13 | Then if you 'd wait in the library or your own office I 'll be down to have a word when I 've finished here . |
| 14 | ‘ The château , ’ Marguerite said , sitting down to have coffee and keep Jenna company . |
| 15 | His twin , perched on the back of an armchair , yawned , all white teeth and pink gums , then leapt down to have a share of the fuss . |
| 16 | ‘ Paige , how lovely to meet you at last , ’ Rose McKenna pronounced warmly , holding out her hands so that Paige had to place hers in them , and was drawn down to have a kiss pressed to either cheek . |
| 17 | Congratulating themselves on having gained another client , Sophie and Helen sat down to have some tea , and Sophie was just about to tell of Robert Sheldrake 's visit when Joanna arrived . |
| 18 | But , I do n't ever remember seeing him sit down to have any . |
| 19 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 20 | I might have down to have proper plates the amount of |
| 21 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 22 | I went down to have a word with the promotion yesterday and er we have er come to terms and er we are all ready to go for next year . |
| 23 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 24 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 25 | But the promotions appear not only to have brought resentment among officers who were passed over but also failed to overcome unrest at hardship caused by US sanctions . |
| 26 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 27 | Often there are letters in the papers from parents who have sent off for T-shirts and pictures from a band 's fan club , only to have their cheque cashed and to receive nothing for months . |
| 28 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 29 | Although France wants American soldiers in Europe , America 's leadership in the Gulf war ( in which France at least played a part ) seems only to have confirmed French fears that military co-operation outside Europe means American domination . |
| 30 | David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test . |