Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As we have heard earlier on this week in the General Secretary 's Report on the financial position of the union , the money generated by this recruitment in the taxi trade will , I am sure , be greatly received .
2 We have explained elsewhere in this book that the government sector gives rise to taxation and expenditure flows ( see Chapter 6 ) and that the external sector gives rise to export and import flows ( see Chapter 7 and Appendix 2 to this chapter ) .
3 Minis are used primarily for on-line work , so they have to perform well in this respect .
4 Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells .
5 However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s .
6 Most part-timers are women , which explains why women have fared better in this recession than men .
7 Now , Guinness PLC company secretary explains : ‘ We have looked carefully at this question recently .
8 I have omitted much in this survey of the centuries .
9 As we have seen earlier in this publication , during the 1980s , under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher , we began to shape a new Britain .
10 They are , as I have argued earlier in this chapter , instinctive responses to the pre-linguistic prototypical behaviour of animals .
11 We have moved forward in this area , although there is still an under-representation of qualified social workers .
12 This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose .
13 The hon. Gentleman may be right — I am not in a position to argue with him — and I am prepared to concede the point for those 2 million pensioners ; but millions of other pensioners have benefited enormously under this Government , not only from increases in the standard pension but from rising income from the state earnings-related pension scheme , rising occupational pensions and increased income from savings .
14 It goes without saying that both sets of institutions have benefited enormously from this symbiosis : the former from its continued popularity and support and the latter from a continuous stream of royal copy which appears to ensure increased sales .
15 As I have indicated earlier in this judgment , the justices made these orders expressly to ensure the bonding of the children with their mother for their long term benefit .
16 Now is your opportunity to test out the ideas I have put forward in this chapter .
17 But Lilliputians feel strongly about this and some Big-Endians have fought angrily against this law .
18 Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ?
19 Above all , what performers sensitive to the original performing context of this music have dug deep into this seam of riches ?
20 As we have stated before in this chapter , the greater the choice that is open to people , the more psychological factors , often unconscious , come into play .
21 Even my Himalayan blunders have seemed trifling to me because I have kept strictly to this path
22 It is in these countries , particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , that significant upturns in the economy have done little to relieve a sense of urban crisis reminiscent of the 1960s , although the political terms of debates that address urban problems have changed dramatically over this time .
23 It may indeed be exaggerated by our traditional dialectic habits of clash and argument , as I have suggested elsewhere in this book , but it does not arise from them .
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