Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 2 | ‘ Through Michael Henshaw we got permission to have a party there . |
| 3 | Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre . |
| 4 | As the game progresses , owners should start to win the chase or the tug-of-war so , by the end of each game scenario — before Fido has lost interest — they are in possession of the toy , playing with it and not allowing Fido to have it . |
| 5 | Public companies , for example , may seek permission to have their shares quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | ‘ In the light of Madame Lavender 's statement , I will also seek permission to have the body re-examined . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you had never expected Faith to have any money of her own ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | I desire you will come over & thin y cherry trees w. you promised mee to have done long before this . |
| 9 | I want his life to have begun the moment he met me , as he wants mine to have begun , simultaneously . |
| 10 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 11 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 12 | After the match , Hastings gave a television interview , attended the official post-match briefing and found time to have a word with me all before he 'd had a shower . |
| 13 | It thus became rape to have intercourse with a woman who was insensible through drink . |
| 14 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 15 | I have to admit that our company , among others , was heavily involved in lobbying parliament to have home taping covered by a blank tape levy in the 1988 Copyright Act . |
| 16 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 17 | Although it believes it has a technological lead of around a year in the RISC notebook market , Gilkes does n't expect Tadpole to have the ground all to itself for much longer . |
| 18 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 19 | The deep friendship between my father and Modigliani derived from the fact that both believed life to have a meaning and that the artist 's duty was to say something essential to mankind . |
| 20 | Blackadder believed Cropper to have designs on those manuscripts lodged with , but not owned by , the British Library , and to be worming his way into the confidence and goodwill of the owners by displays of munificence and helpfulness . |
| 21 | Yeah so They say what properties do you expect lithium to have , you 'll have a look at it and you 'll say well it 's sort of going to be the same as sodium and potassium , rally . |
| 22 | Ruby had said she would be at the office again next morning by which time she expected Rain to have found something more profitable for her than keys . |
| 23 | Comparison of relative changes in SaO 2 by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test showed the oxygen treated group to have significantly higher ( p<0.01 ) SaO 2 readings at all times until the total number of patients fell to less than 10 because of procedure completion ( Figure ) . |
| 24 | It is not a view shared by historians like Thomis who consider Luddism to have been " industrial in its origins and industrial too in its aims " . |
| 25 | Colour-wise it looks a bit anaemic ; I presume its cellulose finish will darken , if you can wait that long , although I would have preferred Fender to have tinted the lacquer a little to increase the ‘ butterscotch ’ element in the colouring . |
| 26 | Now he renewed pressure to have his own right of succession to the English throne acknowledged . |
| 27 | She has n't had time to have any freedom yet . ’ |
| 28 | These marriages , of course , are also more likely to be childless since the couples will not have had time to have children . |
| 29 | Has the Minister had time to have a look at the table published in European Economy , which clearly shows that in terms of the annual change in the volume of exports of goods and services between 1979 and 1990 , the United Kingdom had a worse record than any other European Community country ? |
| 30 | Well , stall him until I 've had time to have a dekko . |