Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you 'd better have a mobile unit |
| 2 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 4 | The headmaster said , ‘ I think we 'd better have a little talk . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we 'd better have a formal interview with you , which I will allege took place in your flat . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd better have a full . |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , Ah 'd best have a wee talk with her myself . ’ |
| 8 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 9 | There was no fresh capital , the project did not have a specific budget so any money had to come from existing tight maintenance and operating budgets . |
| 10 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that Warner did not have a reasonable excuse within the meaning of the section since his evidence was necessary ( ie really needed ) for the prevention of crime in a general sense . |
| 12 | When he applied to the court for permission to marry , as he was required to do since he was under twenty-one and did not have a recognised guardian , the magistrate at Bow Street refused ‘ as he was not in favour of a British girl marrying an alien ’ . |
| 13 | It was felt that many indirect tax practitioners , and in particular those dealing with VAT , were former employees of Customs & Excise and therefore did not have a professional body to provide them with recognition , training and quality standards . |
| 14 | David Laing did not have a loud voice ; but newness was on his side , the novelty value of the Family Party . |
| 15 | The series did not have a uniform intellectual line and many varieties of opinion could be found in the contributors . |
| 16 | Veteran actor Sir John did not have a suitable photograph of himself to adorn the cover of Backward Glances , the concluding volume of an autobiographical trilogy begun in 1939 and due for paperback publication in the New Year . |
| 17 | The government managed to make its legislation ‘ stick ’ , in contrast to Mr Heath 's experience , and has refuted the old ‘ liberal ’ view that the courts did not have a useful role to play in industrial relations . |
| 18 | Typically , those ( the majority ) who did not have a full-time class teaching responsibility , might ‘ float ’ and cover for an absent colleague one day , act in a support TTT capacity the next , and so on . |
| 19 | It did not have a calming effect on the Indonesian crowd . |
| 20 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 21 | Therefore , this point means that the tyre did not have a 1.6 mm depth of tread pattern grooves around the tyre in a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the width of the tread . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd brought the environment committee before so I could quote from it but from er recollection it says that that organisation did not have a consistent record of producing a significant number of jobs and that the expenditure on funding them did not provide value for money . |
| 23 | Eric Nixon did not have a genuine save to make all afternoon as the Rovers rearguard excelled . |
| 24 | They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis . |
| 25 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 ) study of parents caring for a severely disabled child showed that the mothers , economic activity rates were almost half those of a control group of mothers who did not have a disabled child ( 33 per cent and 59 per cent respectively ) . |
| 26 | Then driving to the house in Donegal in her pea-green Polo Fox ( ‘ I did n't choose the colour , it was a present from my daddy ’ ) she admitted , with amusement , she did not have a real idea what Parr did , and did not care a jot . |
| 27 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 28 | He did not have a good journey from Greshornish ; the ground proved so soft that he frequently had to dismount and walk . |
| 29 | ‘ Results show we did not have a good season and at the end of the day the responsibility was mine . |
| 30 | Lawyers said she did not have a good relationship with the father and the prospect that he may return to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |