Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obscure as they are , one can be confident that relations with Normandy were an important aspect of Æthelred 's reign : he is known to have made a treaty with Richard I , married his daughter , and gone into exile there in 1013 , and reported to have both sent a military expedition against it and in 1009 asked Duke Richard II for help . |
| 2 | No do n't worry about it , seriously , we all used to have this , yeah , we used to go on these manic diets |
| 3 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 4 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 5 | I told him the maps we should need , and he promised to have all the necessary Ordnance map sheets ready . |
| 6 | AVS version 4.0 is priced at $7,500 for a single user licence — version 5 , promised to have more multi-user facilities , follows next spring . |
| 7 | As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her . |
| 8 | As Barwise and Ehrenberg ( 1988 ) argue , people came to have little involvement in their TV . |
| 9 | But Carol said she is baffled over how the girls came to have such good singing voices . |
| 10 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 11 | By the end of the eighteenth century , however , the word came to have another meaning . |
| 12 | They seemed to have many roles , in reproduction , in blood vessels , in certain enzyme systems , and in the activity of nerves . |
| 13 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | She seemed to have such endless resources of anger , so many obviously right , sincerely held opinions . |
| 15 | And in spite of , or perhaps because of , this framework , they all seemed to have such fun , such carefree , girlish fun . |
| 16 | ‘ And Terry and Stephen seemed to have such a good time there . |
| 17 | The American sexologist , professor J L McCary , devised a pudding which seemed to have all the best attributes of an effective aphrodisiac . |
| 18 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 19 | He seemed to have all the answers , all the zeal … ( he was ) the structural engineer of Reaganomics . ’ |
| 20 | As he said himself , with something of a mixed metaphor : ‘ The baby seemed to have all its parts but was liable to fall to pieces in the hand . ’ |
| 21 | While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise . |
| 22 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 23 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 24 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 25 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 26 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 27 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 28 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 29 | Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred . |
| 30 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |