Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 2 | Largue has since had to give up his job as an apprentice turner and is now re-training as an electronic engineer . |
| 3 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 4 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 5 | So far , she has only managed to sell around 600 tickets for tomorrow 's charity concert by the Royal Marines at the 1000-capacity Liverpool Philharmonic Hall . |
| 6 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 7 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 8 | Of late , my generation has perforce had to count up the debit column of all those mistakes , and in so doing has forgotten the benefits . |
| 9 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |
| 10 | And a pilot has desperately tried to fight off highjackers seconds before his aircraft smashed into two other jets on the ground at China 's Canton airport . |
| 11 | Ten years on , the economy has finally begun to grow faster than the population . |
| 12 | Assistant Southport boss Steve Joel has finally decided to hang up his boots . |
| 13 | But this year , it has finally decided to flower profusely , forming brownish clouds which drift hazily over the bush . |
| 14 | Former BDO Binder Hamlyn national managing partner Chris Swinson has finally decided to settle down after six months acting as a freelance trouble shooter and litigation expert . |
| 15 | The legislation was introduced as part of a more general swing in the climate of opinion which has almost certainly contributed to changes that have taken place in the recent past : girls ' achievement , while still below that of boys ' , has nevertheless begun to catch up . |
| 16 | But Doris has just said does n't that bring back memories ? |
| 17 | The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running . |
| 18 | Chris has just started bringing in the ‘ tropicals ’ for the winter . |
| 19 | ‘ Unfortunately , the family has just had to fit in around Graham 's needs , ’ Kathleen adds . |
| 20 | She has just launched Starting Out — the real beginners ' workout and Fat Burning Workout — to help you burn off fat and lose weight . |
| 21 | The trust , which attracts 30,000 visitors each year to its exhibition of pictures illustrating Whitby 's past , has just managed to scrape through with a surplus of £75 . |
| 22 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 23 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 24 | The B & Q chain has already decided to do so , and Texas Homecare is likely to follow suit . |
| 25 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 26 | According to Isaacs the endorsement strategy has already begun to pay off . |
| 27 | And the work that France has done to escape from the tyranny of oil has already begun to pay handsomely . |
| 28 | It has already undertaken to sell off £100m worth of businesses and to raise £150m through a rights issue or by attracting a suitor . |
| 29 | Windsor has already tried to set up a team of his own in F1 and knows the problems involved , not least of which is the mega money needed to gain a foothold , never mind putting together the technical talent needed to build his own car . |
| 30 | In birds , therefore , the fact that a female has already mated does not mean that the paternity of her offspring is assured . |