Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [coord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Erm now the th H S C is saying that erm it should n't have gone skin to skin and they 've stopped skin to skin in other headings .
2 This particular morning , because his car had broken down , he was unable to take Mum to work and he had decided to have a lie-in .
3 ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed .
4 He 'd no place to live and they 'd ganged up on him .
5 ‘ The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre but they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland .
6 If we are going to deliver to the people to whom we as elected members owe the highest duty , that 's the people who are in receipt of our services the sort of quality service that we , that they deserve then I have to say that we can have as many reports of this nature as we like , but you have got to acknowledge the need to change and you have got to stop resenting the rights of parents and governors to run schools , you 've got to stop being obstructive to competitive tendering and you have got to stop arguing for the retention of services where it 's patently obvious that there 's over provision .
7 A patient 's attention should be drawn to the fact that he has a right to complain and we have taken steps to do so .
8 You might think I 've got a cheek to interfere but someone 's got to look after Maureen .
9 In one sense , businesses are licensed by the community to operate and you have to work within the terms of the licence , which tend to change .
10 ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile .
11 Here is one of the fastest growing services in the public sector over the decade to come and we 've entrusted local government with it .
12 The club continues to occupy the ground under a protected tenancy requiring Butters to give them six months notice to quit but he has changed the locks and was ‘ too busy ’ to allow committee members access to check the pitch on Sunday .
13 The larger the extension tube , the closer the camera to the subject to photograph and one has to select the correct tube or combination to suit the situation .
14 He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought .
15 In retrospect I admit it was an arrogant , unforgivable thing to do and I 've paid the price for it , emotionally and financially .
16 If I have a mole role it 's a conservative and careful thing to do and I have to do the job properly .
17 he gave me a number to phone and I 've tried phoning and I 've not had a response , but I 'll keep trying
18 Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people .
19 Now there are occasions where members legitimately need to attend committees to speak to something in which they have an interest but the difficulty is , that in the past when we had permanent chairman , a member who wanted to attend the meeting had to ask the permission of that permanent chairman and there are occasions when that permanent chairman thought , well , there is no need for that member to attend and he has said no .
20 - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind .
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