Example sentences of "have [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And anyway , most girls would have jumped at the chance of lameducking them . |
| 7 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 8 | ( a ) Bill of costs Your firm 's bill of costs should be prepared in accordance with the quotation that you will almost undoubtedly have given at the commencement of the transaction . |
| 9 | He saw the Brussels agreement being extended eventually to cover the whole of Western Europe , but each step would have to be thoroughly explored , and the overall character would have to remain at the level of intergovernmental cooperation . |
| 10 | How Crapper 's eyes would have gleamed at the sight of a pampas plug-flush , low-level siphonic . |
| 11 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 12 | Although thus easy so far — albeit unexpectedly — he could hardly have guessed at the difficulties ahead . |
| 13 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 14 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 15 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 16 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 17 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 18 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 19 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 20 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 21 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 22 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 23 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 24 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 25 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 26 | Both groups should have reported at the end of 1982 , though engineering will take longer , and other subject groups will be set up in due course . |
| 27 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 28 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 29 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 30 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |