Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside .
2 ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . )
3 They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master .
4 This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction .
5 Incredibly , no one seems to have worked out the cost of the season as a whole .
6 Not to be confused with Pergolesi 's catalytic opera of the same name ( the one reputed to have sparked off the operatic ‘ Guerre des Bouffons ’ in Paris ) , Paisiello 's La Serva padrona ( ‘ The Servant Mistress ’ ) has enjoyed a less exalted fate .
7 Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine .
8 The plans we had have gone out the window .
9 Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches .
10 Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the
11 People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past .
12 they 've had to close down the spi , and that .
13 Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves .
14 The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal .
15 She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already .
16 Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped .
17 Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped .
18 As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 .
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