Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think I 'd better have tomato , ’ she said dolefully , and refused to like the sound of his laughter .
2 I do n't think , you 'd better have cards in front of you .
3 ‘ As it 's so late , we 'd better have supper instead of tea .
4 Oh yes , she 'd better have eyes , he reflects , with a weary courtesy .
5 Most Tibbu lived in Zawiya , the central administrative settlement of Kufra ; but there were still some fifteen households at Qadr Fi , a marginally cultivable area which possessed Kufra 's only remaining palm-fronded houses , the only houses which did not have electricity and , in the central group of oases , the only ones without running water .
6 They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come .
7 The liquidator does not know of the existence of stock records in support of £50,620 , and XY Ltd , in taking over the stock , stated they did not have schedules/lists which would enable them to identify what they took over .
8 ‘ Insurance was hard to come by and there was no bonding to suit a UK operation as ABTOT ( the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust , run by Travel & General Insurance plc ) did not have DTI approved-body status in time .
9 Both Caliban and Vertigo were available for sale to those who did not have Bermudan status ( i.e. to expatriates ) with the consent of the Governor , but in practice the Governor did not permit an expatriate to purchase more than one property .
10 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
11 It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary .
12 Searle did not have title and therefore could not transfer it to Harper .
13 He said the bus services in the town often did not have ramps needed to get a wheelchair on board , and long journeys by bus were often more uncomfortable than travelling by train .
14 The Anfielders did not have permission to approach the player , but this was granted at a dinner with the Aberdeen party that evening .
15 The government should bear in mind that Virgin did not have permission to fly 95 per cent of the routes around the world ; it was unfair for British Airways to fly a ‘ loss leader ’ on the one route where Virgin did have permission .
16 In Jones & Smith [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 54 ( CA ) , the occupier 's son had general permission to enter the house but he did not have permission to come in with a friend to steal two televisions , despite the father 's saying that his son would never be a trespasser in his house .
17 We did not have occasion to examine the affidavits and documents in any detail because the parties had helpfully agreed a statement of salient facts .
18 Having had the benefit of extensive discussions with many of our large shareholders it became clear that the proposals in their entirety did not have support although many features won warm approval . ’
19 The island did not have visitors .
20 These included the H2S and Gee indicators and the IFF Transmitter/Receiver , although some of the boxes did not have connectors attached which will have to be made up .
21 People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) .
22 A true positive was defined as a patient who had H pylori identified by at least two of the biopsy related tests ( histology , culture , and CLO tests ) , while a true negative was one who did not have H pylori diagnosed by any of these tests .
23 The hallway was sleazy in the extreme , plaster falling from those portions of walls that did not have posters holding them together .
24 She said other friends did not have phones .
25 Of course to be a human one has to be male or female , Jew or Gentile : a being which did not have sex and race would not be human .
26 Seventy two per cent of the resected patients did not have lymph node involvement , and more than one third ( 36% ) had neither node involvement nor full thickness penetration of the oesophageal wall , which has been reported as favourable .
27 the defendant , without any fault on his part , did not have knowledge of the document in sufficient time to defend , or knowledge of the judgment in sufficient time to appeal , and
28 Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system .
29 They did not have Ælfheah 's relics , and no doubt lacked Christ Church 's enthusiasm for them .
30 In this series of 35 patients , who did not have dermatitis herpetiformis , 15 had attended family doctors and hospital outpatient departments for an average of 28 years with unexplained symptoms or abnormalities in blood tests but the diagnosis of coeliac disease had been missed .
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