Example sentences of "something [prep] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | he peered into the envelope as if hoping to find something worth having inside , then glanced swiftly through the letter and having read it flipped it and the envelope , with a gesture of disgust , to the ground . |
| 2 | Something worth having is worth waiting for . |
| 3 | It shines , it becomes something very precious , a gift you touch , caress and give back to your reader : something worth having . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 5 | What with some villains that will only go to houses with something like that , because they think , they see that you 've got something worth having . |
| 6 | at least that 's something worth having . |
| 7 | And to cover up the dreadfulness of the moment , the pain of the knowledge that Rachel had become old , alone , and friendless , she had giggled and said something about having lost her key . |
| 8 | Sometimes , however , he emerged wearing an unmistakably henpecked look , muttering something about having had to do some ‘ domestic engineering ’ — his name for housework . |
| 9 | Liza said something about having been ill so that she herself did n't go out much . |
| 10 | Oh … that reminds me … when you came round , you mumbled something about having heard me calling you . |
| 11 | Mr Tuckett muttered something about having to get back to work and Bernice said that would be fine , as she could drop me back in her car . |
| 12 | He seemed taken aback , and muttered something about having business in Germany . |
| 13 | He just growled something about having walked into a door . ’ |
| 14 | But we ought to have something about having a second reading in it anyway |
| 15 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 16 | Fortunately for our sanity , we can say that we know something without having to delve each time into how we know it . |
| 17 | Well you 'd left something on had n't you ? |