52461 examples of to have in sentences

To have to do things like that was an odious necessity, which had never befallen her before.

A mountain mass which ought to answer to certain fault 15,000 high, and therefore is presumed to have vanished by denudation, points to a term of 90,000,000 years as required for the process.

Kent, Sussex, and Norfolk appear to have been the great seats of this fishery.

But when he looked at Lady Mary, he knew that he would have been better able to dispense with that holiday interval than she was to have endured it.

He seemed to have been translated thither, from the far forest wilds, by the wave of some magician's wand, so little did he appear to be a portion of the scene.

The Federal commander seemed to have clearly outgeneralled his adversary, and, humanly speaking, the movements of the two armies, up to this time, seemed to point to a decisive Federal success.

"But you are likely to have an overflowwhich is all right when you have the whole desert for the litter.

He seemed to have grown suddenly younger and more animated, and when she saw other women looking at him she remembered how distinguished he was.

Then, to a third question, "How he expected his pay?" he said, "He was to have it of Colonel Darnall and Major Sewall; and that Madam Talbot had promised him a hogshead of tobacco extra, for putting ashore at Hooper's Island."

The omniscient Burton seems to have reached the pith of the matter.

I ought to have killed him when he threatened me in the Tiare!"

If I had not been in such a hurry, I should certainly have made bold to have carried a biscuit to a poor little midshipman, who was condemned to remain twelve hours at the mast-head for some nonsense or other, and who looked most miserably cold.

7 Contemporary Period: Foreign Affairs Up to 1866 Rumanian foreign politics may be said to have been non-existent.

Awkward business, to have to ask for it in scrambling haste at such a moment.

His ordinary course in building a fence was to have a trench dug on each side of the line and the dirt thrown toward the center.

He knew they were Chestnuts, and had been called in, but they suited him, and he thought that inasmuch as he had put up the Wherewith for Lutie's Lessons he ought to have some kind of a Small Run for his Money.

These messages came in characters bold as John Hancock's, and in chirography as small and neat as the writing of Charlotte Bronté, whose manuscript the compositor is said to have deciphered with the aid of a magnifying glass; and between these extremes were a dozen or more styles as varied and marked as one could wish.

Le Bon,* whose cruelties at Arras seem to have endeared him to his colleagues in the Convention, has had his powers extended to this department, and Andre Dumont is recalled; so that we are hourly menaced with the presence of a monster, compared to whom our own representative is amiable.

their Drink the pure Element; and then what goodly Customers are the Farmers like to have for their Wooll, Corn and Cattle?

They had like to have dumfounded the Justice; but his Clerk came in to his Assistance, and took them all down in Black and White.

Notwithstanding the absurdity of the story, it is reported to have received credit.

My father seems to have contrived a very clever plan by which he can rob you; but he will rob me at the same time.

For 8 lb. per spyndle yarn, and for other yarns of about the same count, it is usual to have provision for 24 spinning bobbins on the reel.

" Jone paid the men, including the two extra shillings, and when we went up to our room he said, "The next time we go out in two bath-chairs, I am going to have a chain fastened to yours, and I'll have hold of the other end of it.

"Approbation is to be taken in its widest sense"; in which sense "to approve is to have an idea in which we feel satisfaction, and to have or imagine the presence of this idea in existence."

52461 examples of  to have  in sentences