Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’
2 I should like to take part in the epic-reading planned for 26 May if you have some passages available .
3 In response to claims by MAS that the BBC has circulated a list of 67 records that they have allegedly ‘ banned ’ due to their being unlistenable , a spokesperson for Radio 1 said ‘ Absolutely .
4 I see from your appraisal report of 13 December that you have asked for training in two areas , as follows :
5 The crystal beads and spheres are probably the only objects made of one material and which have different distributions .
6 The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought .
7 ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that .
8 You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs .
9 In a large flameproof casserole , fry one large chopped onion and 100g/4oz salt pork or streaky bacon for 5 minutes until they have turned golden brown .
10 ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said .
11 You ca n't be in love with two people and I have n't forgotten your English girl , even if you have .
12 ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound .
13 Hold your breath for ten seconds while you have a good stretch .
14 As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low .
15 ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding .
16 Picture this in three dimensions and you have a silicate network striated by layers of modifying oxide .
17 ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said .
18 Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles .
19 but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it .
20 there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about .
21 So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry .
22 Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things :
23 I 've called British Telecom every day for five months and what have I got ?
24 I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children .
25 I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children .
26 I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that .
27 In all the years , and I 've been it 's secretary now for fifteen years and I have n't had any trouble .
28 I still write Upholland as one word because I have never heard anyone say ‘ uffolstery ’ when they are talking about furniture .
29 Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that
30 My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here .
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