Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits .
2 Until a year ago I had very little do with women in the sexual sense .
3 I have relatively little to do with young people , ’ she remarked ,
4 I must n't die , when I have so much to live for !
5 There is also the ‘ to-hell-with-them-all ’ vote of the dispossessed , increasingly common throughout Europe , which has precious little to do with specific constitutional demands .
6 It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country .
7 She describes friendship in terms which have rather less to do with sexuality than with religion .
8 It is the older wife in a divorce case , who has no recent contact with the labour market or a poor earning capacity , who has sometimes much to lose through the ending of her marriage .
9 Do you have very much to eat at lunch time , in between I mean you tend to eat erm take the take your big meal at lunch time or at night ?
10 She was trembling , perhaps because she 'd suddenly remembered that the origin of the toast she had just drunk lay in the Viking custom of saluting each other by drinking from the skulls of their enemies .
11 She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ?
12 She had too much to do with the new house and the new baby , you said . ’
13 Fazila and Salima attended English classes but Ruksana was forbidden to by her father-in-law who thought she had too much to do in the house .
14 She had too much to think about , too many problems .
15 The governor , who had only half listened to the senators response , failed to notice the barb in the remark .
16 We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company .
17 The date is right and amongst the books there was a copy of " Literary Tours " by D. T. Holmes who had so much to do with the establishment of these libraries .
18 Such a move on his part was entirely understandable , and it was perhaps unwise to have entrusted any military authority to one who had so much to gain by Edward 's downfall .
19 You had more two goes at erm , the last time !
20 talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and
21 But in spite of facing ever-deepening mystery and pressure , you 'll find you have far less to worry about than you think by next weekend .
22 If you have that many to deal with , spacing them 2ft ( 0.6m ) apart and 3ft ( 0.9m ) between the rows would be ideal .
23 One has very little to offer in an interview and one sits there feeling rather embarrassed .
24 We 've so much to talk about — and so much to plan . ’
25 I suppose we had too much to drink at lunch .
26 and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous
27 J. did n't work nights and we had so much to talk about that it seemed a shame to waste precious time in sleep .
28 Except to say that it was scrupulously chosen , as was usual with Eliot , I forget what we ate on the occasion : we had so much to talk about .
29 we have n't half got through
30 We will no doubt find , and again rightly so , that we have as much to learn from others , as to give .
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