Example sentences of "have [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that she and her book would have nothing complete to say to the age until her grandfather 's misspent energy had been redeemed inside herself . |
| 2 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 3 | ‘ The rest of the colony may have nothing better to do than gossip about my private life , but I draw the line at my fiancée joining in . ’ |
| 4 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 5 | Parliamentary speeches opposing women 's emancipation singled out feminist repealers-'a defiant sect who would have nothing sacred , nothing veiled , nothing hidden' — as the precursors of what was to come if women were to enter the public arena . |
| 6 | " Look , lad , " said Dadda , " I do n't have nothing mild . |
| 7 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 8 | Middle Eastern states , whose oil based economies could be destroyed by test-tube fusion , will have nothing more to lose and could exploit the weapons potential of test-tube fusion devices to keep the oil burning . |
| 9 | And then of course , silly girl , she went and told him — he was so livid he would n't have nothing more to do with her . " |
| 10 | In any case , I can have nothing more to do with the investigation . ’ |
| 11 | As soon as she realised what Garry had done she would have nothing more to do with him . |
| 12 | But now she was glad she would have nothing more to do with this place . |
| 13 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 14 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 15 | ‘ The army will have them all in barracks before we have saved the first ten men ! ’ |
| 16 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 17 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ You shall have them all for twopence . |
| 19 | After all , if you 're going to have one blood test , you might as well have them all . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway . |
| 21 | I ca n't have them all trooping out in their wedding finery looking for me . ’ |
| 22 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 23 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 24 | I should have them all metal cos ours is all metal as you see |
| 25 | They 'd have them all ! |
| 26 | You can have them all . |
| 27 | And that one , look , you can have them all . |
| 28 | Well you can have them all and put the black in when you need it . |
| 29 | I 'll have them all . |
| 30 | for , I 'm gon na have them all in the boot of the car , at all times , so I 'm gon na have two boxes please |