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

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1 A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part .
2 The whole package , doctrinal decrees and disciplinary reforms , has shaped Catholicism down to the present .
3 Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain .
4 Now Michael has lured Alfred down to the small theatre that he runs .
5 In her future , a big fundamentalist upsurge has stuck women back in the kitchen and the bedroom , turned their money into plastic and then taken that plastic away .
6 But his ‘ aesthetic humanism ’ which , according to Art News and Review , ‘ has brought man back into the world of visual experiment ’ , was already being challenged by a revival of interest in non-figurative art .
7 The labour market has pulled women out of the home , and decent childcare is expensive .
8 KEITH Richards has taken time off from the Rolling Stones to perform with his own band , the X-Pensive Winos .
9 It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone .
10 That was the last time I used my LSI because I 've actually been ill since I got back — a touch of the Peruvian tummy-bug , which has put things out of the question ever since
11 Ankle ligament damage has kept Sterland out since the end of last season and another setback means he may not return for weeks .
12 Admission of a £2bn cost overrun has sent Eurotunnel back to the banks to plead for fresh financing .
13 Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’
14 He 'd spent days up on the cliff behind the quarry , watching them take off .
15 All the time he 'd imagined Lee up in the wood , with Caspar most probably sheltering in the hide , but now , as he climbed through the wood in the gulley , he was n't so sure that Lee would be there .
16 You must have noticed things out of the corner of your eye every day of your life — this is very similar , and the ability vanishes as soon as the eye focuses on one object .
17 He told the court he did n't believe the accused 's story , Kim was shy and self-conscious and he did n't believe she would have brought Shukir back to the flat .
18 Things like that made them really cagey , hence I was always having to lob people out of the shop if they looked like they were examining the clothes too closely .
19 If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard .
20 ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor .
21 She would have taken Moses back to the harem where he would be brought up with others , learning to read and write the Egyptian hieroglyphic and " cursive " scripts and gaining expertise in various skills and sports ( see Acts 7:22 ) .
22 They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up .
23 He cited the battle fought at the CPSU congress in July [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , a campaign of misinformation about Soviet policy towards the Gulf crisis ( an oblique reference to Soyuz ) , and a recent , much-repeated public boast by two deputies from the military , whom he described disparagingly as " boys with colonels ' stripes " , to the effect that having cleared Bakatin out of the way " the time had come to settle accounts " with Shevardnadze .
24 The poisons they use in the fields are very strong and we 're always having to take people off to the hospital .
25 Having shut Lear out in the storm , Goneril and Regan lay ‘ a plot of death upon him ’ ( III.vi.92ff . ) .
26 What are the science-related issues that the public will have to make decisions on in the near future ?
27 I had traced Tunney out of the City to a big house with high broken-glass-topped walls where the rich and inebriated pay to have their vices purged .
28 When she returned to the room with the salted hot water , Frank and May between them had lifted Andrew on to the bed , and there he was propped up and breathing very heavily now .
29 One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out .
30 My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water .
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