Example sentences of "to have this " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ real work ’ always lies in the bodily activity of physically capturing the ‘ prig ’ , often to have this dangerous business transformed by a detective who then negotiates justice with the adversary , in the essential CID cause of returning a good detection rate . |
| 2 | But he seems to have this antagonism towards the local people . |
| 3 | Some cases of Hepatitis B are complicated by a satellite virus known as the delta agent and its RNA has been shown to have this catayltic property . |
| 4 | So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick . |
| 5 | ‘ Are n't we lucky to have met and to have this whole day to ourselves and the sea and the sky , ’ Rose said enthusiastically . |
| 6 | The employer of wage labour , by contrast , did not need to have this concern with the welfare of his workers . |
| 7 | Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again . |
| 8 | At a recent Labour national executive meeting the leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament failed to get a seconder from either left or right for a motion to have this whole issue discussed by the party conference . |
| 9 | It is wonderful to have this array of foods accessible to us , but it is even more exciting when you know a little about the food , how it is produced , how to prepare it and how it should be served . |
| 10 | A brief shower reduced West Indies ' target to 199 from 47 overs , and Greenidge , Rowe and Kallicharran looked to have this well under control . |
| 11 | She had hoped to guide the early conversation along vaguer , more social channels , not to have this immediate plunge into medical details , definite decisions , not to face a situation already cut and dried by her opponent . |
| 12 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |
| 13 | However , for show purposes and parades , people like a horse that says ‘ look at me ’ , and to have this presence they need not only good looks but also some essence of animation or cheerfulness . |
| 14 | I wondered how many adventures we were going to have this time . |
| 15 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
| 16 | The authors of the Arkleton Trust publication seem to have this in mind when they state : — |
| 17 | We 're pleased to have this chirpy , family-run hotel exclusively to Club 18–30 again for Summer '90 in this lively young people 's resort of Faliraki . |
| 18 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
| 19 | For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby . |
| 20 | They were highly regarded by the farmers , both for their local knowledge and their strenuous efforts to have this knowledge understood and used by the MAFF scientists in Whitehall . |
| 21 | But there were no flights , so I said , ‘ Look , mate , we 're never going to have this amount of money and time again , let's go to the best place in the world for birds — Peru . ’ |
| 22 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 23 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 24 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |
| 25 | You have got to have this album to er … to stay hip . |
| 26 | There was to be no quibbling , just , ‘ How much ? ’ for she had made up her mind that , no matter what it cost , she was going to have this outfit . |
| 27 | My feeling is that what we ought to do is preserve areas of countryside without having to have this excuse for doing it . |
| 28 | Initially he is overwhelmed : ‘ I continue to have this curious sense of fiction , the feeling that I am living in a Maurice Edelman novel . |
| 29 | That was their plan , no doubt ; to have this man delay him whilst they summoned reinforcements . |
| 30 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |