Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 2 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the state has also interested itself in providing additional pension coverage . |
| 4 | Professor Camille has thoroughly enjoyed himself in looking at such images , and he skilfully shares with us his delight and enthusiasm for what he has found . |
| 5 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
| 6 | Indeed , my legal representative has strongly advised me against making it . |
| 7 | Johnnies has firmly committed itself to playing such a role . ’ |
| 8 | This month I will also be embarrassed to allow my father-in-law , who is a Frenchman and a rugby enthusiast , to read a magazine that has again disgraced itself by using a humourless title such as ‘ Frog March ’ ( April 1992 page 20 ) which would be more at home in The Sun newspaper . |
| 9 | No manufacturer has yet committed itself to using the Cosworth engine , which is expected to be fully ready for production by June . |
| 10 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 11 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 12 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 13 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 14 | Especially since you 'd just asked me about investing in your business … ’ |
| 15 | Suppressing a sigh , she surveyed the map of Copenhagen with which she 'd already armed herself before leaving England , refreshing her memory as to the location of the street where Suzie 's presence had last been authenticated . |
| 16 | If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love . |
| 17 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 18 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 19 | He recalled Liza having once said something about coming from Cornwall , but he had never known or bothered to find out her home address . |
| 20 | Before his horrific injury against Palace , Dublin must have still pinched himself after grabbing the headlines with his later winner at Southampton . |
| 21 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 22 | Dorothy Eden , one of the best and most successful writers of romantic suspense novels , used in her earlier days to start her whole book from a name she had chosen , or that had perhaps chosen her by striking a note from the wind-harp in her mind — Seraphine , Blandina , Hariot . |
| 23 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 24 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 25 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 26 | Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ . |
| 27 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 28 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 29 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 30 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |