Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years .
2 If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments .
3 ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person .
4 It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time .
5 The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path .
6 ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
7 He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her .
8 That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true .
9 My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’
10 Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me .
11 Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light .
12 The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life .
13 It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk .
14 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
15 Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them .
16 It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time .
17 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
18 Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted .
19 Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small .
20 She would have passed me by a few feet , perhaps not noticing me .
21 ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
22 I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty
23 ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’
24 To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’
25 Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time .
26 Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post .
27 He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours .
28 The devil had booked them into the same room .
29 And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’
30 I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed .
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