Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm inclined to ring in half an hour to see you 've got there safely , but I suppose I 'd have your brother hopping out of bed . ’ |
| 2 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 3 | I am hoping that you will observe that I have fetched in enough buckets of coal this afternoon to spare you having to carry them in tomorrow . |
| 4 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
| 5 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 6 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 7 | Fearon glanced in that direction to see what had upset her , looked vaguely surprised , slapped half-heartedly at the mud with his hand and mumbled , ‘ It 'll brush off … ’ |
| 8 | That prospective Tory candidate for Cheltenham John Taylor survived attempts to deselect him has much do with her efforts as local party chairman . |
| 9 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 10 | As we approach the end of the diet and exercise programme , it is important to decide at this stage how you intend to proceed afterwards.If you have a significant amount of weight to lose you have the choice of continuing on the diet menus as included in the daily plans or you can follow the diet contained in my Complete Hip and Thigh Diet . |
| 11 | You 'll need to get your daily iron from eggs ( if you 're eating them ) , beans such as baked beans , soya beans and lentils , leafy green veg , dried fruit , and fortified breakfast cereals ( check the labels to see which have iron added ) . |
| 12 | Demands to know what 's happened to our contract on the Gittel job . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 14 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 16 | When Tim helps clients to decorate they have to accept they will not end up with a ‘ decorated ’ house in the London sense of the word . |
| 17 | The majority of past and current speech recognition systems have used whole word based methods to identify what has been spoken and have been very restricted . |
| 18 | When he lectured he never made the slightest attempt to underline what had been his own ( considerable ) contributions to the subject . |
| 19 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 20 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 21 | I felt there was public benefit from offering this type of information by radio and I have asked Media Action to let us have the enquirers ' addresses so that we can get a geographical appreciation of where the calls came from ( one or two came from Fife ) |
| 22 | Above all , the reader is led into the inevitable decline from triumph to despair not by authorial direction but obliquely through Judd 's halting attempt to understand what has happened . |
| 23 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 24 | The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth . |
| 25 | Owner David Neill said : ‘ The whole community is shocked and I have no words to describe what has happened . |
| 26 | I would n't want readers to think I 've gone soft on freedom to roam following a comment I made in July 's Scottish News . |
| 27 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 28 | Appeals from Democratic Party leaders for the candidates to cool it have apparently fallen on deaf ears . |
| 29 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 30 | Balding is at a loss to explain what has been wrong with Morley Street . |