Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 3 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 4 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 6 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 7 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 8 | Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience . |
| 9 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 10 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 11 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 12 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 13 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 14 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 16 | Chairman Alan Brooker believes the company 's increased size has put it in a better position to win larger , long-term contracts , in line with DCM 's stated policy , and should lead to improved margins and faster growth . |
| 17 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 18 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 19 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
| 20 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 22 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 23 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 24 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 25 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 26 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 27 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 28 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 29 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 30 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |