Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
2 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
3 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
4 | I should 've arranged it , now that I come to think of it . |
5 | I mean , they could 've filled it in . |
6 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
7 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
8 | ‘ The owner must 've reported it missing . |
9 | The other , and more serious , disadvantage of the Helblaster is that it is inclined to jam or misfire , and once it has misfired it is useless . |
10 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
11 | ‘ Except as provided by the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act — ( a ) no person who under or for the purposes of this Act receives information relating to the business or other affairs of any person ; and ( b ) no person who obtains any such information directly or indirectly from a person who has received it as aforesaid , shall disclose the information without the consent of the person to whom it relates and ( if different ) the person from whom it was received as aforesaid . |
12 | Once a rip current pattern has developed it scours the sea bottom to give areas of deeper water which perpetuate the cell circulation pattern : a classical example of positive feedback . |
13 | ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too . |
14 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
15 | Breach of a civil law , in contrast to a breach of a criminal law , normally renders the person who has broken it liable to pay damages to the victim of the breach . |
16 | If there is no contract or it is unenforceable , then neither the buyer nor the seller can complain that the other other has broken it . |
17 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
18 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
19 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
20 | About seventy per cent of the entrants now wear fancy dress and this has stopped it , unlike the World Coal Carrying Championship , from becoming a serious sporting event . |
21 | The appallingly self-centred nature of this conclusion can only rebound against the man who has uttered it , and Shakespeare was too sensitive a poet and human being to be blind to such a reader reaction . |
22 | So I 've decided that I will suppose he has posted it . |
23 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
24 | And we , our little machine here has calculated it that that 's forty miles an hour . |
25 | In communications , too , the Soviet Union has realised it must modernise or die , whatever the risk . |
26 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
27 | Certainly that is how the press , with a few exceptions , has treated it . |
28 | At Prague airport , Anderson is searched thoroughly for Hollar 's thesis but nothing is found ( scene fifteen ) , the explanation being , as Anderson reveals to an indignant McKendrick once they have boarded the plane ( scene sixteen ) , that he has hidden it in McKendrick 's briefcase . |
29 | The plastic weapon has been condemned as tasteless and at least one shop has withdrawn it from sale . |
30 | When I mention the Heavenly EP to Right Said Fred it turns out that only Fred has heard it , so I play it to them . |