Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the BBC 's sample of a dozen or so voters , one realised that people still have an abiding and entirely irrational belief in government as a form of magic fairy . |
| 2 | To environmentalists — and an increasing number of foreign foresters and ecologists — it seemed that Britain too had all the signs of forest decline . |
| 3 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 4 | WHEN the Middle East peace talks began in October 1991 , an official of the American State Department remarked that negotiations usually have three phases : measuring and testing adversaries , taking the requirements of the other side into account , and cutting deals . |
| 5 | The Pioneer and Voyager probes of the 1970s hinted that Jupiter probably had no solid surface at all . |
| 6 | A step-ladder , cans of paint , a sack of potatoes and assorted rubble lay where Kirkwoods once had frolicked . |
| 7 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 8 | The vast distances covered by American railways meant that passengers often had to sleep on trains , but sleepers on early American trains were uncomfortable . |
| 9 | thought that women only had two holes |
| 10 | While this suited some people with mild conditions , it became clear that those who attended as outpatients frequently had quite different characteristics from those who were admitted to the mental hospitals as in-patients . |
| 11 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 12 | Mr Cullen said that police later had traced McKie , who had told officers : ‘ I wish I had n't done it . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role . |
| 14 | Christina wondered if Martin really had a date , and suddenly felt cheated , guilty and annoyed , all at the same time . |