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

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1 I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet .
2 He said he 's pleased that Pakistan has decided to come back into the Commonwealth .
3 Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’
4 Master of Ceremonies was Branch Chairman Malcolm Cork , Booth White , who has decided to stand down from the position .
5 But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing .
6 By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca .
7 ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’
8 She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits .
9 IN a week when Mark McNulty has had to pull out of the Jersey European Airways Open with a bad back , Sam Torrance , the holder , has come to La Moye with his hands covered in blisters .
10 She said well I should imagine that 's what 's happened the paper work here has got muddled up with the other .
11 ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’
12 ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’
13 They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ .
14 The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games .
15 The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain .
16 The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time .
17 NOW , AN ANONYMOUS FEMALE MEMBER OF THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY HAS DARED TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE REALITY OF LIFE FOR WOMEN IN SAUDI ARABIA .
18 There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man .
19 Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings .
20 We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities .
21 This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death .
22 Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice .
23 To put it in simple terms , hard disk performance has failed to keep up with the massive increases in processor speeds — you need a disk cache of some description , so we might as well start with the one you get for free .
24 While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long .
25 She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more .
26 She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence .
27 And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence .
28 I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’
29 ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had .
30 They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt .
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