Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [det] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 2 | The blood glucose level checked by the practice nurse or diabetic clinic is perhaps just in single figures but with close questioning the patient has had very little to eat for several hours . |
| 3 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 4 | Indeed , I recall my impression at the time was of having stepped into a prison cell , but then this might have had as much to do with the pale early light as with the size of the room or the bareness of its walls . |
| 5 | Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty . |
| 6 | If a firm considers it will have to spend too much to comply with the statutory requirements it can appeal to the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | Stephen had already taken in two things : that he was with a set of people he would have liked very much to belong to , and that Annabel was hitched to a man who treated her idly . |
| 8 | I 've seen too many end in tears the minute we reach port . |
| 9 | After she and John had done so much to guard against the enemy without , the fatal wound was to come from the friend within . |
| 10 | Er , I 've got too much to do with my lodgers . |
| 11 | Any people with any sexual , political , musical , literary ( need I go on ? ) persuasions will all be replied to by this young man Hurry up and write — we 've got so much to talk about . |
| 12 | We 've got so much to think about . |
| 13 | We 've got so much going through the big wire , put another little wire on as well . |
| 14 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 15 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 16 | She had had very little to do with Bunny , but on their occasional meetings the girl had grown more civil of late . |
| 17 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 18 | Ford suggested that three developments had brought about this weakening of the president 's position . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've lived too much to die like this . |
| 20 | The sheet , pillow-case and towel calculations are fairly simple once you have decided how many to allocate to each conference guest and how often they are to be replaced . |
| 21 | Also , the neck is so straight that the frets have needed hardly any dressing at all . |
| 22 | It 's got as much to do with personality , character , how you project yourself . |
| 23 | ‘ Something that 's got very little to do with goodness , ’ he grunted . |
| 24 | It 's got very little going for it . |
| 25 | yeah yes I wondered if David would be on bus , I saw Wendy having a he worked later today because he 's got so much done on front of the er that weather he could n't er , do any decorating outside still we never got nobbled down street providing the er canvassers |
| 26 | It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ . |
| 27 | THE first six months of the year have gone very much according to plan and most of the companies within the Food & Agriculture Division are close to their budgets . |
| 28 | The two approaches to the study of the mother and child relationship we have discussed so far-that based on physical care and that dealing with attitudes — each originally hoped to reveal the major determinants of children 's personality development ; neither , however , has succeeded in this task . |