Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Packed with roots and culture discourse ( white people who think they 're black , dreadlocks , the limitations of rap as a revolutionary force ) , Vibe also delivers moody profiles of the impeccably hardcore ( Naughty By Nature , Super Cat ) alongside bankable acts a studio executive might have heard mentioned at a funky party ( Bobby Brown , LL Cool J ) . |
| 2 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future even though he saw a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year perhaps up about 7pc to 1.7 million . |
| 3 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 4 | I should have stopped looking at the pictures then , when past and present had clashed in my mind and made no meaning , but I went on . |
| 5 | The hearts of hopes of Oxford fans must have stopped beating at Peterborough on saturday when their team went a goal down , after 35 minutes as Sterling banged one in. 5 defeats in a row has been dreadful . |
| 6 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 7 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 8 | Not necessarily one 's own physical good looks — some of the battalions of the style fascists look as if their mothers should have considered smothering at birth — but the look of others who do not look right ( a subtle but fundamental difference ) . |
| 9 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 10 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 11 | He would have preferred to stay at Lyons , but he set out at once in mid-March , and arrived in Rome about the end of April 1098 . |
| 12 | Most travellers with their wits about them and an eye for aesthetics would have preferred to rest at the Bates Motel . |
| 13 | Yet , if such all-male groups were to reproduce themselves as hunting groups and gain the immense adaptive advantages that situation bestowed , they would have had to institute at least one , and probably several , hunts against members of their own species — the primal fathers who , of course , monopolized all the females . |
| 14 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 15 | They 'd have had to come at you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If he did he 'd have had to park at the back of St Manicus house since they 've banned parking in the precinct now . |
| 17 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 18 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 19 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 20 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 21 | ( i ) An applicant will have to have attended at least one major conference on medical negligence and one medical course for lawyers devoted specifically to enhancing the lawyers ' understanding of medicine generally in the three years prior to the application . |
| 22 | Both partners may have tried to talk at a more intimate level but found that the other one was not listening . |
| 23 | By now two people would have started talking at the same moment . |
| 24 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 25 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 26 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 27 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 28 | Whether or not the briefcase still contained whatever Horfitz had given Filmer at Nottingham was anyone 's guess , and dearly though I would have liked to look at the contents , I did n't want to risk any more at that point . |