Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I take the view that it is wise for ministers to have sufficiently long in a job to get thoroughly on top of it . ’ |
| 32 | The right which he had most clearly in mind was his claim to the French crown , which he asserted formally in his renunciation of homage three months later . |
| 33 | I registered every dog we had right up to 1969 . |
| 34 | Erm I 've obviously though about it quite a lot and I ca n't figure out a reason for it . |
| 35 | I 've only once in my life written a fan letter to a film star . |
| 36 | In April 1949 ten European nations joined America and Canada in signing the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington , an alliance which ended any lingering fears that America might slip again into isolationism , as she had so disastrously after 1919 . |
| 37 | He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him . |
| 38 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 39 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 40 | We really had much more in common . |
| 41 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 42 | The need she had just then for a wild outpouring of physical exertion was stronger than anything else : she wanted to go on , pulling at the rope and screaming with laughter . |
| 43 | Millett J added that the question of whether or not the transcripts were in fact material evidence had more properly to be decided by the Crown Court . |
| 44 | They had like well for the sake of saying , pigeon co for food and even poultry food like , you know , such as er , well they used to call it Sharp 's and mix it up like into a mash , you know . |
| 45 | In their gorgeous knitted sweaters , these youngsters had far more in common with their Scandinavian cousins than with their fellow countrymen on the school ship from West Ham — though the two British groups got on fine , expressing mutual wonder at one another 's behaviour . |
| 46 | She had duly registered the death of her father at the Council Offices that afternoon and the funeral had now speedily to be carried out in Buckinghamshire . |
| 47 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 48 | A good keeper ought to be able to become a better slip fieldsman than most of those NZ had there early in the international season . |
| 49 | Comments I had earlier on in our relationship had n't , he did n't seem very keen did he ? |
| 50 | " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense . |
| 51 | The increased numbers of people were housed by splitting up existing houses so that even modest cottages had sometimes up to twenty people living in them . |
| 52 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 53 | The fascist enemy within France had quite simply to be unmasked and eradicated . |
| 54 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 55 | yeah I 've never ever like this |
| 56 | ‘ Mr Stanforth , ’ she said now , ‘ I 've never once in my life had any communication from my Great-Uncle Alan . |
| 57 | By the late thirteenth century armies had very largely to be paid for , the feudal element being both small and hedged about with inconvenient restrictions on how long and where the cavalry might serve . |
| 58 | She was a witch , then , because he had never before in his life done such a thing with a girl in the street . |
| 59 | Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications . |
| 60 | For instance , there are examples of children with very low levels of vision in terms of measured acuity who use what vision they have remarkably effectively for learning , whilst there are others , less motivated , who use a higher recorded level of acuity apparently to very little effect in day-to-day tasks . |