Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 2 | The more people there are around , the less time I have to spend trying to be civil to Piers Morrison ! ’ |
| 3 | Some of what I have to say does in fact apply to literature generally , but much of it is specific to the novel , the literary form in which I am most interested , both as a literary critic and as a practising writer . |
| 4 | so I have to say go on father bugger off |
| 5 | In conclusion , I am sorry if what I have said seems to be one more version of ‘ on the one hand ’ and on the other' . |
| 6 | By concentrating on some of the crises and conflicts of modernity through my interpretive and impressionistic historical journey , I hope that I have begun to bring to your attention some of the fundamental problems of the modern world . |
| 7 | I have sought to demonstrate in this book that an attempt to alter the shape of Europe by compromising with the ‘ Maastricht philosophy ’ must necessarily end , by faster means or by slower , with the political centralisation of the Community . |
| 8 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 9 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 10 | ‘ It is a risk , but it 's something I have wanted to do for some time and I believe it is feasible . |
| 11 | ‘ Old Trafford is the one ground I have wanted to play at more than any other , ’ said Johnson , 21 . |
| 12 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 13 | ‘ I object to the principle of the PLR not because I wish to do hardworking authors out of money — I would be eligible for PLR but I have declined to register on principle . ’ |
| 14 | The old cases which I have cited have to be read subject to that development and not least to what was said in Thomas 's case . |
| 15 | ‘ I have enjoyed it so much I have asked to stay in the DES . |
| 16 | Mrs Thompson said : ‘ This is something I have intended to do for some time but somehow never got round to . |
| 17 | Father and I have missed talking to you . |
| 18 | It is wholly consistent with the principles which I have endeavoured to state in this speech . ’ |
| 19 | The points I have endeavoured to make regarding the scope of orders that can be made under section 6(2) have implications for the present case . |
| 20 | The men and women I have met come from all sorts of social and employment backgrounds . |
| 21 | What all the successful entrepreneurs I have met have in common is not a certain kind of personality but a commitment to the systematic practice of innovation . |
| 22 | cos I have to go to work at s I have to be ready for work at |
| 23 | I have to go do on the floor |
| 24 | This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear . |
| 25 | ‘ The fears that I have heard expressed about the possible negative impact on these groups are totally groundless , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ I have heard speak of him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have heard speak of him . ’ |
| 28 | Now , I have heard tell in the sultry dens of Freudianism that the psychological scar inflicted by this act of parental desertion frequently induces the daughter , when she is of an age to start questing for a swain , to seek a substitute for the departed archetype . |
| 29 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 30 | Is this the problem I have heard described as ‘ jogger 's testicle ’ ? |