Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In our complex society so many of the peculiarities of our institutions and policies can be explained only by what has gone before .
2 She was curious , about the whey in his mouth and the shaft of his cock under her palm and the paired kernels of his balls ; about the possibility of pleasure her mother Sycorax who was dying now beside her had talked of so often .
3 Above all , how could he have the nerve to come here after what had happened the other night ?
4 I thought it might all be going to go away without me having to do anything .
5 James Macrae 's wealth is shown also by his having lent a large sum of money to Glasgow City Council in 1745 to assist the city through financial difficulties created by requisitions enforced on the city by Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army as they retreated northwards to Culloden and defeat .
6 In order to look at the effect that financial devolution , in the form of LMS , is likely to have , both on schools and on the quality of education , it may be helpful to look closely at what has happened in institutions that have already experienced various levels of financial autonomy .
7 and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so .
8 In using such sources , they relied largely on what has come to be known as the ‘ comparative method ’ .
9 Sit down together and talk honestly about what 's happened , what it could involve in practical terms , what you 'll probably all have to do without .
10 An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost .
11 It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them .
12 It was then that I decided to learn more about what had happened to the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ by the shores of Loch Tummel , and during my research an amazing possibility dawned .
13 Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s .
14 In early 1981 , Reagan and his aides spoke confidently of his having received an impressive mandate at the recent elections , and many in Congress and the media seemed to find the argument convincing .
15 You still ca n't park here less you 've got a … ’
16 But I waited most for whoever had acted Lily .
17 He was clearly embarrassed about what had occurred , but at first was unwilling to say much about what had happened .
18 Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul .
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