Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's called a Midge , but my three-year-old daughter has christened it James . |
| 2 | If he had bothered to read his own party 's policy document he would have seen that it is his party which seeks to deprive the inspectorate of its independence ; that it is his party which is determined to put the inspectorate under the control of a new quango quaintly called the educational standards commission ; that it is his party which would deprive Her Majesty 's inspectorate of an essential part of what has given it independence and credibility — its role in advising the Secretary of State of the day . |
| 3 | As early as 1752 , David Hume noted that ‘ the plan of liberty is settled , its happy effects are proved by experience , [ and ] a long tract of time has given it stability ’ ( Hume , 1906 : 203 ) . |
| 4 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 5 | And the recent deal with Tivoli Systems Inc ( CI NO 2,107 ) has given it access to SQL and object-oriented database tools . |
| 6 | He has given it continuity and confidence , matching perspiration with performance . |
| 7 | He has given it continuity and confidence , matching perspiration with performance . |
| 8 | He has done it time and again — |
| 9 | This policy has brought it £24m of borrowings , most at variable rates , and Mr Linacre said replacing these borrowings with convertible preference shares , yielding 7 per cent , would save the group about £1.8m a year . |
| 10 | The National Art Collections Fund has begun it autumn lecture series , The Discerning Eye : Collectors and Connoisseurs , taking place on Tuesday evenings at the Royal Geographic Society , Kensington Gore , London . |
| 11 | They 'd arranged it months ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish I 'd done it years ago . ’ |
| 13 | and he 'd remembered this spiel and he 'd got it word perfect and he 's reeling it off as his one objection |
| 14 | Given Karen 's broken-nosed vowels and head-banger intonation , they would n't have understood if she 'd spelt it tor them . |
| 15 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 16 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 17 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |
| 18 | ‘ I should have given it consideration in such a small place as Wakefield … |
| 19 | erm , Mr knows when he talked about getting rid of all the a ho , our homes that of course , we 're not allowed to get rid of all of our homes , if we were the Tories would have moved it years ago . |
| 20 | They should have named it resurrection . |
| 21 | She should have done it ages ago . |
| 22 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 23 | Yes , he thought , but I should have done it years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have done it years ago . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ If he was going to do anything , he 'd have done it months ago . |
| 27 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 28 | You should have taken it years ago . |
| 29 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 30 | we do n't necessarily need you to have had it experience |