Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I can not say whether this manifestation was a product of opium or not but ever after the most excruciating of my opium torments have regularly visited me with his likeness and the haunted corridors of my mind have resounded with his peculiar bombast .
2 It was raining harder then ever by now , but could all the water in my excavation have come from above ?
3 ‘ Several members of my family have lived to a good age .
4 My family have lived in Anglesey for 500 years , mostly as parsons , and I am deeply tied up with the people and landscape .
5 We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years .
6 It 's a clever way of offering different sounds , and one which Fender have used to good effect before , notably on The Twin .
7 Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist .
8 Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent .
9 But erm Jane and her husband have gone to gone , gone to Scotland today
10 ANNEKA Rice and her husband have agreed to a trial separation after work pressure forced their marriage on to the rocks , her publicity agent said .
11 Hillary is aware that some of his efforts to help the Sherpas and their environment have led to threats from the pressures of tourism .
12 Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth .
13 Now these in their turn have fallen on hard times at a time of agricultural rather than industrial recession .
14 Thirteen members of her family have died in Ulster 's years of violence , including her youngest son Gary , who was murdered by a Loyalist gunman shortly before his wedding day .
15 It is not the first time that her family have worked at Glenpatrick as both her father and two of her aunts have also done so .
16 During the same period Glasgow and its conurbation have gone from being an industrial city with 60 per cent of its labour in manufacturing to a service centre with 60 per cent of its labour in service occupations .
17 I mean it 's a thing you might want to talk think about or you night have read about , things like interjections and er interruptions and overlapping .
18 In mediaeval times ditches were dug around these woods to prevent deer from entering them and also to hinder those who ma have inclined towards helping themselves to underwood .
19 Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years .
20 To set the scene , however , we were fortunate to have Mr Jack Bedell ( BCRS member ) , a well-known local farmer whose family have lived in Bishop 's Castle for many years , to recall his memories in a talk on the BCR and its importance to the business and farming community .
21 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions Ministers in his Department have had with the Government of Guyana concerning trade since 1986 .
22 The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict .
23 While Sunderland and Newcastle United have been in turmoil , and have consequently stolen much of the limelight , his side have progressed in two major cup competitions and challenged for Premier League status .
24 As the Institute for Fiscal Studies spring budget report shows that Government borrowing is likely to reach £20 billion next year , will the right hon. Gentleman confirm or deny that the Prime Minister and his Chancellor have reneged on their promises to balance the books ?
25 The sport of horse racing has taken a tumble today with the news that there 'll be less Arab money being invested in breeding and training … but as one stable door closes … another one opens … in Gloucestershire trainer David Nicholson and his team have moved into their new home … its the biggest and hopefully best yard steeplechasing has ever seen
26 All his team have appeared in one-day internationals , the most recent debutant being the impressive Murphy Su'a , the first player of Samoan descent to play for the Kiwis .
27 The fruit is the enlargement of Magritte 's known oeuvre by as many as 200 works , never previously illustrated , which Sylvester and his team have recovered from private collections , and a serious attempt to unravel that most taxing issue of the existence of different versions of the same composition and of different images which carry the same title .
28 Details of the crime , and even the suspect 's picture , have been featured in this newspaper but all efforts to persuade the police to tell us his name have come to nought .
29 Mr Briggs and his keeper have carried out most of the work over the last 30 years with help from an apprentice , part time estate workers and contractors .
30 Obviously , the Maastricht mess has dogged this first year , so it is difficult to assess what impact , if any , the supposedly new caring Major and his cabinet have had on social policy .
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