Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cynics , licking their lips in anticipation , were ready and willing to use what little influence they had to keep this Morrissey thing under wraps . |
| 2 | What 's happened it 's the world again to use J B Phillips translation this time the Romans twelve two , that , that the world the precious around us has pushed us here and is as dented at there and it squeezed us out of the mould , the purpose the pattern that God had for us , into its own mould , a warped mould , a distorted picture , that has what has happened . |
| 3 | So it was awful to find I 'd done something wrong . |
| 4 | Or as Mr Major said during an election television interview : ‘ Labour say they 've got a recovery package of £1 billion . |
| 5 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |
| 6 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 7 | She looked very peaceful , and I was quite unafraid , interested to know what had happened . |
| 8 | You will be interested to know I have renamed it : |
| 9 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 10 | Some say she has learned her lesson well . |
| 11 | Everybody seems to give a different answer , some say ‘ yes , ’ some say , ‘ no ’ and some say you have to get a licence . |
| 12 | This is some place you 've got here , Malamute . ’ |
| 13 | In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul . |
| 14 | When this happened we had to wait until it was repaired , and if it proved impossible we were entitled to see the next film the following Sunday , for nothing . |
| 15 | Within two hours some Allied troops had already reached their second objective , and by 07.00 Messines itself had fallen . |
| 16 | When your potential catchment is broader based you have to find additional ways of drawing them in . |
| 17 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 18 | Some protested they had to get home , but their tone was half-hearted . |
| 19 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 20 | Because flat-rate unemployment benefit can only be drawn for a maximum of a year , a large number of today 's unemployed find themselves having to draw means-tested assistance . |
| 21 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 22 | This meant we had to turn round but we were now being driven into a shore . |
| 23 | This meant we had to complete our first Report in five months and our second only seven months later . |
| 24 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 25 | With wafer-thin profit margins , this meant he had to keep his planes to full capacity if he were to meet his debts , which he was never able to do . |
| 26 | This meant he had to bring forward some of his morning chores . |
| 27 | Tragically , this meant he had to stay relatively sober . |
| 28 | This meant she had to help patients with personal hygiene , dressing and un-dressing them , and assisting in feeding them ; she also got involved in weighing patients , taking samples and temperatures , and helping prepare patients for operations as well as making snacks and beds . |
| 29 | This meant I had to get in close . |
| 30 | This meant I had to get hay from the top barn for the rest of my cattle , which were still outside . |