Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 2 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 3 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 4 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 5 | He wanted to thank me for having such an undying belief in his footballing ability and for working tirelessly to further his career in soccer . |
| 6 | The ground staff at Edinburgh were very helpful , and when we finally boarded ( in really raw and biting cold and -2 degrees centigrade ) thanked me for having my luggage so clearly labelled as it had helped them get it to the hold doors for immediate removal at Brussels . |
| 7 | Curse me for having nothing in this world to give him but gratitude ! ’ |
| 8 | Blame me for having it sprung on you like this . |
| 9 | Forgive me for having addressed you so informally , Miss Bishop . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have your work cut out to do that — to say nothing about having to contend with Matt 's opposition to the idea . |
| 11 | They have not right to take and fund matters to the Higher Courts to review the decisions of the Government , the executive in other words , and they themselves have no idea how they 're meant to fulfil this role that the Government sees them as having . |
| 12 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 13 | Erm confused as hell until somebody told me about having a pie . |
| 14 | Fenna had given her freedom and power and joy ; she would not call those things illusions , because without them there was nothing worth having in her life . |
| 15 | Marlboros have become the alternative to hard currency — safer than dollars , which the ordinary citizen is forbidden to have , and more useful than the rouble , so soft that it buys nothing worth having . |
| 16 | 36 , or relating to protection of the environment or the working environment ’ shall notify such provisions to the Commission , and the Commission may confirm them after having verified that they are not a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States . |
| 17 | Tutwiler 's statement came amidst reports of growing bitterness among Kurdish leaders who claimed that the US administration had failed to support them after having initially encouraged their movement . |
| 18 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 19 | Well I think it , we should er congratulate ourselves in having the European Community as a piece of machinery inside which it 's possible to contain a power the size of Germany . |
| 20 | We pride ourselves on having secured excellent , often especially upgraded , inflight services for our customers and offer a large number of Saturday departures . |
| 21 | We pride ourselves on having won the propaganda war . |
| 22 | He 'd suspected them of having an affair for a while , but they had both kept their tracks well covered . |
| 23 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 24 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 25 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 26 | When I made a television documentary that concluded that there was no evidence for nuclear fusion products , I received a letter from Martin Fleischmann alleging that there was a warrant issued in Utah for the arrest of the film crew , accusing me of having gained ‘ illegal access to the National Cold Fusion Institute ’ and of being a media person masquerading as a scientist . |
| 27 | It smacks to me of having a brain that 's too active by far . |
| 28 | When I described this to M. Bellin , the secretary at the consulate , he told me of having seen an ostrich trying to rape a donkey . |
| 29 | ‘ Except that you were right when you once accused me of having a personal prejudice . |
| 30 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Eccles ( Miss Lestor ) for having tabled the question , which otherwise the Opposition might have accused me of having planted . |