Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want the Association to have a powerful voice in the running of the game . |
| 2 | On the way to the hotel I stopped the taxi to have a drink in a bar . |
| 3 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 4 | I took the opportunity to have a word with the Kentish Constabulary 's finest . |
| 5 | I think if a girl got into bed with you er no clothes , I think the intention to have sex is very clear . |
| 6 | It said do , do you want the computer to have a name |
| 7 | And so you opened the window to have a look and what happened then ? |
| 8 | Quite good can you afford the time to have all these breaks for other pursuits ? |
| 9 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 10 | Neither of them guarantee the right to have an alternation of power . " |
| 11 | The teacher ( in role ) will be the Pied Piper , but s/he wants the class to have a say in the characterisation — so the children " construct " the character : perhaps Teacher : In the drama I 'll play the Pied Piper , but I need your help . |
| 12 | All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day . |
| 13 | We want the public to have the full range of options brought out in the open , discussed and be able to make a real choice . |
| 14 | Or , we drop the requirement to have it . |
| 15 | Our advantage , however , was that we allowed the public to have their say on possible changes before proposals were published . |
| 16 | We suppose the starting-to-work to have occurred necessarily . |
| 17 | I wish to say a few words about what measures we would be considering if we had the misfortune to have a Labour Government . |
| 18 | The redevelopment of the er derelict factory site into smaller industrial units and making it er a form of want for a better phrase , enterprise zone where thanks to subsidies from the government and the E E C , we will look into making it rate free , reduced rents , etc. , er increase capital allowances for companies going in there so you could attract the needed capital intensive industries that will meet the high tech need that we have the need to have to create high tech jobs . |
| 19 | Who delivered the message at Kinghorn gate , a letter to the Queen saying the King could be arriving that evening and telling her to instruct the purveyor to have horses at Inverkeithing , particularly his favourite , the white Tamesin ? |
| 20 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 21 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |
| 22 | Soon a video of this execution may well be available and people will be able to pop it into their video machines every time they feel the need to have ‘ justice seen to be done ’ . |
| 23 | And they would n't want that , any more than they wanted the Firm to have them . |
| 24 | they considered the report to have been more judgmental than descriptive ; |
| 25 | ( In this context it may be mentioned that in Athenian law courts it became the custom to have a clepsydra to ensure that most speeches were limited to half an hour . ) |
| 26 | In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner . |
| 27 | The opening paragraph of the chapter titled the Theory of Representative Perception , in the book … , says " … passed on to the brain , and there , by some unexplained process , it causes the brain to have a perception " . |
| 28 | The borrowing facility severs the relationship between the two things : it allows the community to have all the good things but in the short run to suffer a much smaller amount of the bad . |
| 29 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 30 | The bishop had the power and duty of examining the clerk before he allowed the candidate to have the benefice and to become a parish priest . |