Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the new ethos to which I have referred of youngsters carrying knives , allegedly for their own protection , there is a real danger that there will be another explosion of such crimes . |
| 2 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 3 | Er Madam Speaker I I entirely agree with the sentiments which have been expressed by Black and Decker and I have to say to members opposite that when companies like Mercedes are starting to source outside of Germany , with companies like Volkswagen are starting to look er outside Europe and Peugeot and others , alarm bells should be ringing for those members who are genuinely concerned about jobs because there is no doubt that the social chapter is driving people out of work and the longer that members opposite adhere to it er then the the greater will be the er the possibility o of er people er in Europe er embracing policies which will make those countries in Europe less competitive and less able to provide employment . |
| 4 | Everything I have said about gilts applies to qualifying corporate bonds , except that they are not backed by the UK Government and so there is a greater risk that the bond will not be repaid . |
| 5 | However , I reached my decision on the basis to which I have deposed in paragraphs 8 , 9 and 10 above . |
| 6 | I have waded through copies of ACCOUNTANCY since 1985 . |
| 7 | Elsewhere in the book I have written about problems that are impossible to solve because the solution requires a basic contradiction . |
| 8 | In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past . |
| 9 | If not then nothing I have written before matters . |
| 10 | All that I know about insurance I have gleamed from courses such as this . |
| 11 | As he put it , ‘ I have to deal with guys on those committees who could n't get a security clearance for a job in a post office ’ . |
| 12 | It is more likely to be a wonder I have borne with things so long . |
| 13 | ‘ I have asked at houses near the academy , but to rent a room there — yes , it is most embarrassing to say I can not afford what is asked , and I shall not be earning until I begin my work in two weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ So far I have met with politeness here , but so far they have not honoured the agreements that I have . |
| 15 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 16 | I have to go for things , grab them when they 're offered . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I have to go for Batts ! |
| 18 | Usually , I never feel I have to complain about competitions as they 're always judged fairly by Steve ‘ Fishnet Tights ? ’ |
| 19 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |
| 20 | I have lived with thieves in Manchester . |
| 21 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |
| 22 | I have heard of cases where sudden terror and stress has caused involuntary evacuation of the bowels and I know without question that this was the occasion when I came nearest to suffering that unhappy fate . |
| 23 | I have heard of chaps being accused of asserting their conjugal rights , but asserting moral rights is obviously something else . |
| 24 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 25 | I have heard of mythagos which have succeeded , but they are part of the myth that says tumuli and fire guarded valleys are the way to the Otherworld . |
| 26 | But credit where it 's due : this is one of the most enjoyable recordings of anything I have heard in years , and one track in particular — Michel Camino 's wildly exhilarating Caribe , which opens the CD — is already a fair contender for my Desert Island eight , up there with and the other lands . |
| 27 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 28 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 29 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |
| 30 | I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses . |