Example sentences of "have [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star .
2 ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out .
3 Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on .
4 I should 've arranged it , now that I come to think of it .
5 I mean , they could 've filled it in .
6 Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that .
7 If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up .
8 ‘ The owner must 've reported it missing .
9 If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law .
10 The other , and more serious , disadvantage of the Helblaster is that it is inclined to jam or misfire , and once it has misfired it is useless .
11 Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift .
12 ‘ Except as provided by the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act — ( a ) no person who under or for the purposes of this Act receives information relating to the business or other affairs of any person ; and ( b ) no person who obtains any such information directly or indirectly from a person who has received it as aforesaid , shall disclose the information without the consent of the person to whom it relates and ( if different ) the person from whom it was received as aforesaid .
13 Once a rip current pattern has developed it scours the sea bottom to give areas of deeper water which perpetuate the cell circulation pattern : a classical example of positive feedback .
14 ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too .
15 At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening .
16 Breach of a civil law , in contrast to a breach of a criminal law , normally renders the person who has broken it liable to pay damages to the victim of the breach .
17 If there is no contract or it is unenforceable , then neither the buyer nor the seller can complain that the other other has broken it .
18 Blows it momentarily out , and he has to light it .
19 But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll .
20 Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention .
21 ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’
22 The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it .
23 About seventy per cent of the entrants now wear fancy dress and this has stopped it , unlike the World Coal Carrying Championship , from becoming a serious sporting event .
24 The appallingly self-centred nature of this conclusion can only rebound against the man who has uttered it , and Shakespeare was too sensitive a poet and human being to be blind to such a reader reaction .
25 ‘ Once he was satisfied — and I feel sure that he must have consulted the lady concerned since she , after all , is the person who has to wear it — he ordered it . ’
26 I 'm the one who has to wear it .
27 He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’
28 ‘ No , but he has to wear it nevertheless . ’
29 So I 've decided that I will suppose he has posted it .
30 ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me .
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