Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 2 | Anyone who has seen them or knows their whereabouts is asked to contact detectives at Craigavon 325144 . |
| 3 | She must be mated again , and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another . |
| 4 | Sandra ( normally a quiet girl ) thumps James because he has jogged her and spoilt her drawing of a tuba . |
| 5 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 6 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 7 | I was a new face in the orchestra , very inexperienced , I 'd never played the piece , though I 'd studied it and practised my part . |
| 8 | I 'll have to promote myself and tidy your life up for you . ’ |
| 9 | I should have anticipated it and upped my limit . ’ |
| 10 | The Shah could then have denounced them and ordered their arrest and execution . |
| 11 | Aunt Margaret must have woken them and organised their washing . |
| 12 | Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there . |
| 13 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 14 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 15 | If you were in a bad accident or been into the slums with lice and things , you had to report it and bring your uniform in . |
| 16 | ‘ A pity that you had to lose her and earn your own living . ’ |
| 17 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 18 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 19 | I 've done nothing but change my plans because of what happened then , and do n't you ever forget it . ’ |
| 20 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 21 | We had to calm her and untie my father , laying him down tenderly while we tried to extricate the mule . |
| 22 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 23 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 24 | After you had arrested him and got his trousers on what did you do ? |
| 25 | By the time you had arrested him or put his trousers on . |
| 26 | She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape . |
| 27 | A week before the overdose his wife Mary had left him and taken their two children with her . |
| 28 | How dare he imagine he could charm his way back into her life , after the way he had deserted her and left her destitute with Sam and the two children to rear . |
| 29 | Harriet had climbed them and had her key in the lock when she heard footsteps on the path behind her and a male voice called : ‘ Excuse me ! ’ |
| 30 | And now , before she had to get up again , to go downstairs and face the mockery and malice which awaited her , before she had to compose herself and complete her walk up the hill to see bridal , virginal Miss Dallam , she closed her eyes and thought , with pure agony in her mind , and in her heart , and in her soul , of Daniel . |