Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said .
2 The Face pulls a bolder trick than most , and one that has now blown up in its own , er , face , with the £200,000 libel damages awarded to Jason Donovan .
3 Jane Brown 's gift is to vault the divide that has unfortunately grown up between architects and the rest of us and bring their drawings alive in the most agreeable and informative way .
4 He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker .
5 In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes .
6 While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage .
7 The Pleven Plan , like other suggestions that had recently come out of the Council of Europe , followed the outline and objectives of the Schuman Plan very closely .
8 As he walked behind the plough he had time to think of the easy relationship that had gradually built up between them .
9 It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments .
10 The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) .
11 Flight Lieutenant Gareth Williams MHCIMA , formerly training officer at the RAF School of Catering , Aldershot , has been promoted to Squadron Leader and has just taken over as Officer Commanding Catering Squadron , at RAF St Athan , Barry , Wales .
12 He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury .
13 BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name .
14 On this basis , inflation stands at more than 7% ( at an annual rate ) and has actually crept up since January ( see chart ) .
15 The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years .
16 At this point she showed enormous courage by re-assessing her life , and has now struggled through to what she describes as a liberating philosophy of autonomy and self-determination .
17 He has just finished his GCSE 's and has now moved on to ‘ A ’ levels at sixth form .
18 The sales build-up reached Denmark and the UK in March and has now taken off in Spain , Portugal and Iceland .
19 A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent .
20 Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration .
21 After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) .
22 Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s .
23 It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over .
24 He had inherited an oil company in port of Spain from his father , and had also branched out into the airline business , owning and operating several profitable inter-island routes .
25 Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar .
26 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
27 ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson .
28 She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her .
29 He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats .
30 Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie .
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