Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 2 | We will have to invest in an onion grader someday . |
| 3 | If I , a plastics factory owner , decide to make a rear-lamp cluster for a particular car , either I or the car assembler will have to invest in the specific mould to produce it . |
| 4 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 5 | However , it is believed that in the virgin planet 's oceans there evolved , by chance , complicated molecules called ‘ proteinoid globules ’ ( or ‘ proteinoid microspheres ’ ) ; alternatively , these molecules might have formed on the slopes of the primordial volcanoes and been washed , by rain , down to the seas . |
| 6 | Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material . |
| 7 | There seems no doubt that molecules such as these could have formed in the seas of the earth at the very beginning of its history . |
| 8 | The idea was that " bubbles " of the new phase of broken symmetry would have formed in the old phase , like bubbles of steam surrounded by boiling water . |
| 9 | IF ALGERNON Swinburne had been an able seaman he might have referred to the sea as ‘ the oggin ’ but certainly not as ‘ the great sweet mother ’ , which he did . |
| 10 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 11 | In the overview of the provisions of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which appeared in ACCOUNTANCY 's December 1992 issue ( see p 128 ) , the reference under Wages Councils to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1980 should have referred to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1986 . |
| 12 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 13 | Otherwise , he would never have referred to the only point upon which he and his advisors were at odds . |
| 14 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 15 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 16 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 17 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 18 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 19 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 20 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 21 | And anyway , most girls would have jumped at the chance of lameducking them . |
| 22 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 23 | ‘ They would probably have jumped on a train and gone to London . |
| 24 | But I 'd have jumped in the lake if I 'd lost . |
| 25 | I 'd hate you to think it was all a ‘ donation' from me , and so I enclose my sponsorship form ( which I did n't realise I should have posted with the cheque ) to show that I had a lot of generous sponsors . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll have to agree to a change of day , or it 'll be cancelled . |
| 27 | Q. Does the Committee have to agree to the work to be done , and its priority ? |
| 28 | The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations . |
| 29 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 30 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |