Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 2 | Charles Darwin , for Dregs Ale , from the public bar at the Dodo Agogo Inn : Joseph Hooker has just triumphed in his debate with Bishop ( Soapy Sam ) Wilberforce over Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 3 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 4 | Graham has already complained in his programme notes about the lack of support at Highbury — yesterday the fans hit back . |
| 5 | Now erm I think Michael said he would go for decentralization and we know this is what has already started in our Housing Department . |
| 6 | Does he agree that the time has come to put forward with ever greater clarity the kind of Europe which we want and which he has already outlined in his comments ? |
| 7 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 8 | Perhaps because of the kidding tone of Heller 's God Knows , Jacobson has studiously reined in his comic instinct in this work . |
| 9 | I think Troon was the greatest Arnold Palmer has ever played in his life . |
| 10 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 11 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 12 | Howard laughs more in his first few weeks on Harry 's group than he has ever laughed in his life before . |
| 13 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Thomas S. Foley ( Dem. , Washington ) , stated his opposition to any amendment of the Bill of Rights , however , arguing that the issue of flag burning was not so important as to make it " worth tampering with the most important repository of personal liberty that any country has ever established in its history " . |
| 14 | I 've delivered two still-born babies , but no one has ever died in my hands . |
| 15 | Cherry ( who succeeded Coleman as Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon on Coleman 's death , thus blighting the hope of assistant professor Sewell that he might follow Coleman in that post ) that Coleman was ‘ the greatest enemy that the profession has ever had in its highest ranks ’ . |
| 16 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 17 | This filter is made up of everything that has ever happened in our life , plus our basic temperament . |
| 18 | I thought : no man has ever slept in her hair before . |
| 19 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 20 | The following quotation has always stuck in my mind : ‘ In life the firmest friend , the first to welcome , foremost to defend . ’ |
| 21 | I remember an all-black room I saw years ago which has always stuck in my mind : black velvet walls , black carpet , ebony table and chairs , black lacquer side table . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen hundreds of corpses since then but that sight has always stuck in my mind . ’ |
| 23 | The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for . |
| 24 | And the wings he has now began in his heart , |
| 25 | The high efficiency of diamond drill bits for cutting through reinforced concrete walls has even resulted in their being chosen for obtaining illegal entry into bank safes ! |
| 26 | These have been described as a fraud upon the public because , even if a data user has solemnly undertaken in his registration statement not to disclose the data to any third party , he will under the Act be deemed not to have contravened the terms of his registration if he access to requests from police or tax officers pleading prejudice to their enquiries . |
| 27 | Their model is contemporary western democracy , something that most of them admit has never existed in its modern form in eastern Europe . |
| 28 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 29 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd better sleep in my bed . ’ |