Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 2 | He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches . |
| 3 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 4 | For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions . |
| 5 | The Italian Minister was unable to promise more than having implemented one out of two by the end of the year . |
| 6 | Or , perhaps , it had the meaning he had wanted it to have from the beginning : the meaning that had kept him out of coups led by others . |
| 7 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 8 | All the excitement that had buoyed her up over these last years drained out of her . |
| 9 | It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough . |
| 10 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 11 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 12 | Theda slipped unobtrusively into the house , which seemed unnaturally quiet after the hurricane that had driven her out of it . |
| 13 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 14 | And Gershwin 's ‘ Rhapsody ’ , the one that had started them off on this road together . |
| 15 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 16 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 17 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 18 | The same thing may explain the cricket establishment 's ambivalent attitude towards the one-day matches that have shoved themselves on to the scene . |
| 19 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 20 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 21 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 22 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 23 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 24 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 25 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 26 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 27 | Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see . |
| 28 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 29 | Belinda had the case-file in front her and had handed it over without a word almost before he had realised who she was . |
| 30 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |