Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual proclivities of no other prime minister have aroused quite the same kind of obsessive inquiry … |
| 2 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |
| 3 | I do n't think it 's condoning , I just think it 's given the safe , giving out the safest options for people who maybe taking drugs and , and and maybe in , in maybe er sometimes thinking about injecting drugs , and er I think we actually have to be very clear on this epidemic , that , that there is no , no way for , for lack of clarity , we have to go down the line . |
| 4 | You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds . |
| 5 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 6 | I have to go back a stage , I have n't actually explained what these four to you , on this page you 've got four boxes . |
| 7 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 8 | Ann adds : ‘ Even if we lose the appeal and the girls have to see out the full term in prison , I shall still be campaigning to prove their innocence long after they have been released . |
| 9 | I have given up a lot of my independence . ’ |
| 10 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 11 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 12 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 13 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 14 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 15 | have given up the ghost . |
| 16 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 17 | I have given only a very rough and general indication of how the model of teacher mediation I have presented and argued for in this chapter might itself be made operational . |
| 18 | The pack also includes general guidance for employers and employees on the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders , and an assessment checklist designed to help most employers who have to carry out an assessment of their manual handling operations to do so quickly and at minimum cost . |
| 19 | Some in industry have to carry out the same operation . |
| 20 | While we actually do the a the removal , we usually have other agencies with us such as the N S P C C , the police , who have to carry out the investigation into what has actually happened , and erm in the end the court . |
| 21 | The city is one of the most popular destinations on the visitors ' map … but accomodation bookings have fallen roughly a quarter over the past two years . |
| 22 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 23 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 24 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 25 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 26 | We have heard quite a lot , colleagues , about pensions and pension schemes over the last eighteen months perhaps we have to actually thank Mr Maxwell for raising the issue , even if those pensioners he cheated wo n't thank him . |
| 27 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 28 | TWO royal servants have cheered up the Queen 's ‘ annus horribilis ‘ by getting married . |
| 29 | In view of these limitations , and knowing Father 's esteem for conciseness , I have listed here the revised round of duties he will from now on be expected to perform . ’ |
| 30 | They have dismissed even the manifest economic growth generated by his policies , certain that any wealth created must have gone straight into his or his cronies ' pockets . |