Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 After I have given my first three preferences to Apple , Banana and Cherry my fourth preference , if I express one , will count only if Apple , Banana and Cherry have been either elected or eliminated .
2 I have given my third and fourth preferences to candidates who , if not exactly " worthless " , know as well as I do they have no chance of being elected .
3 The band , whose ‘ Silverfish With Scrambled Eggs ’ single stormed the Indie Top 20 in March , have completed their first album for the Creation label .
4 There they stay for about a fortnight until they have completed their first moult and can fend for themselves .
5 AS SOON AS YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR FIRST HILL-WALK , A NEW CITY hobby opens out to you .
6 After you have placed your first order , further half-litres come willy-nilly and are put in front of you , until you decline .
7 MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have received their first pay cheques for almost two months but uncertainty continues to surround the pit 's future , writes Marcello Mega .
8 Guaranteed for a full twelve months , the watches will be sent to you once Sun Alliance have received your first payment for the Plan .
9 I have received your last letter of November 23rd .
10 Indeed , I did not deserve so kind a one , but by this time you have received my last .
11 I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit .
12 Hartnell have designed their first bridal collection , prices start at ‘ 1,250 for a short dress and £1,950 for a long dress .
13 Anderlecht , beaten 3–2 by Sampdoria , in the semi-finals of the European Cup last season , have won their first five games in Belgium this season .
14 No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince .
15 His side have stumbled recently at home but have won their last seven away games .
16 Shildon , who have won their last two games , expect to be unchanged from the side which beat title chasing Murton on Wednesday .
17 Billingham Synthonia , who have won their last seven in a row , have doubts over defenders Sean O'Brien and Tommy Connor for the home game with Northallerton , and with another defender Andy Harbron unavailable , manager Stuart Coleby may be forced to play .
18 If that run continues against a Rangers side who have won their last 15 games , re-confirmed Skol Cup winners and supercharged by the prolific McCoist , then not even the attacking flair which destroyed Stuttgart 4-1 at Elland Road five weeks ago may be enough .
19 No fewer than twenty lucky readers have won our third prize of a Recta D0310 compass and a 905 Liquipak .
20 We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " .
21 He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points .
22 I have done my last charity ball .
23 In fact , I have done my last charity performance ever .
24 FIREMEN have made their second handcuff rescue in two weeks .
25 Police in Gloucestershire have made their first seizure of the potentially lethal drug .
26 And Oxford United have made their next big cup game against Aston Villa at the Manor on Wednesday the twenty third of September all ticket …
27 Some Conservative Members have made their last speeches in a Second Reading debate on coal .
28 Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other .
29 Most people have had their first and are n't ready for their second .
30 BOBBY BROWN and Whitney Houston have had their first lover 's tiff … over a pair of pet pooches .
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