Example sentences of "have [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 2 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 3 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 7 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 10 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 12 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The plastic weapon has been condemned as tasteless and at least one shop has withdrawn it from sale . |
| 15 | er for the time being and if you ask Dave about this thing you 've missed and also about what this business about erm cos he has explained it to me but I 'm not quite sure about it , this business of keeping a , a sort of l record of all the practicals for this term |
| 16 | The gallery has secured a newly discovered and never before exhibited example from that group ‘ Sunset at Petworth House ’ and has placed it among examples by other artists from Richard Dadd to Lucian Freud in a show called ‘ British Watercolors ’ , on from 5 May to 5 June . |
| 17 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 18 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 19 | Yet Dr. Elliott is elsewhere in print ( on the back of an Abbey Records LP ) as maintaining as almost certain that Carver composed the superb anonymous 6-Part Mass , ‘ Cantate Domino , ’ intimately related musically to Fera Pessima , which survives in partbooks from Lincluden ( Dr. Elliott has edited it from performance , and declared it ‘ shows more assured technical command ’ than Fere Pessima itself ) ; while the Carver Choirbook itself contains a fine anonymous 3-Part Mass which several scholars have suspected to be genuine Carver — and which is moreover largely in his hand . |
| 20 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 21 | Ergotimos had looked to a metal model ( a slightly later example is the superb huge bronze from Vix , fig. 58 ) , but he has rethought it in his own medium . |
| 22 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 23 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 24 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 25 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 26 | Malta is a party to the Montreal Convention covering the trial of terrorists and has incorporated it within its own legislation . |
| 27 | Diana has weakened it by being popular . |
| 28 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 29 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |