Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis . |
| 2 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 3 | Friend and photographer Howard Bingham has travelled with him for thirty years . |
| 4 | ‘ When putting on shoes they should be checked to make sure no harmful insect has hidden in them during the night . ’ |
| 5 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 6 | No one has heard from them for days . |
| 7 | Sir Geoffrey has arranged for us to be provided with two rooms in the Ingard offices — and I suggest that I and my clerks occupy one room , and you the other . |
| 8 | If the guests wo n't dance when the host expects them to , has depended on them to , that 's the band 's fault and they do n't get paid , or only after an argument . |
| 9 | ‘ Great credit is due to Mr Peterken and the team he has gathered around him for their initiative and vision about finance . |
| 10 | The proportion of our population aged over 65 has swollen from one in twenty to one in five . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect Alice has explained to you about that , ’ he mumbled . |
| 12 | It has to cope with anything from 100 to 400 customers at a time . |
| 13 | She is extremely well behaved , and travels everywhere with me — to open days where she has to cope with lots of people , visits to playgroups to teach the children how to approach a strange dog , friends ' houses , talks I give , dog clubs and work engagements . |
| 14 | Mme Pettifer , my man Georges , I think , has consulted with you on the subject of the wines . |
| 15 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 16 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 17 | This reasoning has also been applied to service in Italy ( which has objected to none of the methods listed in Article 10 ) , with the assertion that Article 10(c) does not authorise a separate method of service . |
| 18 | I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel . |
| 19 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 20 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 21 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 22 | His new found maturity on and off the court is impressing many and diluting the controversial image he has carried with him since turning professional four years ago . |
| 23 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 24 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 25 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 26 | Standard English today differs from local dialects not only in permitting the expression of complex relationships in familiar written forms , but also in the astonishing wealth of vocabulary which has accrued to it through its intellectual and imperial history . |
| 27 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 28 | Nigel Crowle has written for everyone from Russ Abbot to Sir Anthony Hopkins , from Jeremy Beadle to Ben Kingsley . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 30 | With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator . |