Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 2 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 3 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 4 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 5 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 6 | You only have to snip out the listings in the local paper on Saturday , a column filled with auctions , sales , markets and fairs in an area that stretches from Bath to Frome , Shepton Mallet , Devizes and Wells . |
| 7 | If any of my staff or myself can be of help with a future motoring need , you only have to pick up the phone or call in and see us and we will ensure your total satisfaction . |
| 8 | I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’ |
| 9 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 10 | However , she just has to pick up the phone and a friendly voice at The Wool Shop is always there to help . |
| 11 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 12 | Of late , my generation has perforce had to count up the debit column of all those mistakes , and in so doing has forgotten the benefits . |
| 13 | I mean this they must have got my name through Miriam so they must already have worked out the they were working |
| 14 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 15 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 16 | We just have to iron out the contract details . |
| 17 | You just have to list out the erm adverts , position , advertiser , estate agent , town . |
| 18 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 19 | The reason the farmer at Ben More has put up the sign you talk about is that he has been particularly troubled by dog owners who ca n't control their animals . |
| 20 | Unless the contract is frustrated , the seller will still have to carry out the contract and if he delivers goods which do not comply with it , he will be in breach of contract . |
| 21 | Thorfinn had said , ‘ To get to Dunkeld … to get to anywhere that matters , he would still have to sail up the Tay or march north by the Forth crossing . |
| 22 | She still had to shake out the sofa cushions . |
| 23 | The three still have to sort out the thorny question of who will run the centre and where it will be . |
| 24 | We still have to work out the terms of my contract . |
| 25 | David Sole , Scotland 's captain , has also had to dig out the speech-making file following the midweek injury in Sydney to Nick Farr-Jones , Australia 's World Cup leader , who was to have headed this campaign which coaches Ian McGeechan and Bob Templeton hope will compound New Zealand 's problems . |
| 26 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
| 27 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 28 | Apart from having a direct effect on the redistribution of income and wealth , the regulation of the capital market would also have slowed down the rate of economic growth and indirectly prevented large accumulation of capital by individual families . |
| 29 | The ITA was simultaneously having to work out the details of its own role ; formulate rules that met the legislation 's requirements for quality , balance and so on , some of which — about imported American programmes , say — would affect the companies ' finances ; and ensure both that there was proper competition for the franchises , yet that the operation did not collapse through mismanagement or financial miscalculation . |
| 30 | ICI says it may now have to close down the business . |