Example sentences of "have [verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book .
2 A definition , along the right lines but too broad , is that an animal has signalled when it changes the behaviour of another animal .
3 His valuation has doubled since he hit the big-time , ’ said Slaven .
4 Suddenly she dropped his hand and slid her arms about his waist , knowing she 'd won when she felt the thunder of his heart against her cheek as she burrowed her face against his chest .
5 The leaders of the teams on the controls could see her , so she would n't have to mess around with semaphore and bits of thread like they 'd done when they left the Store .
6 She was instantly aware that she 'd over-reacted as she saw the expression on his face .
7 She would have spat if she had the spit to spare in her dry carcass .
8 If you add essential oils as the water is running , much of the aromatic vapour will have evaporated before you enter the bath .
9 That satisfaction would smartly have evaporated when he reached the clearing and found me gone .
10 But he was clearly in a hurry , so it would have to wait until they reached the palazzo .
11 ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’
12 ‘ You will have to wait till I get the consent of the solicitor , at least . ’
13 It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy .
14 My advice to my touch judges on the action to take is ‘ what would you have done if you had the whistle in your hand instead of a touch flag ’ ?
15 The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it .
16 ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’
17 Fully two minutes must have passed before he plucked the pipe from his mouth and said : ‘ I do n't know what the document contains .
18 So we 'll , we 'll come back to that issue later , because we 'll have to approve whether we rent the land i in future years anyway , it does come up .
19 He knew he should have fired when he had the chance ; by leaving it too late , he 'd lost the advantage .
20 Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses .
21 The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner .
22 Flinging her head upwards , she stared at Leo , and several seconds must have elapsed before she had the gumption to grasp his extended hand .
23 Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions .
24 if it 's a many-one , watch out , cos you 're going to need , what you 're going to have to do if you need the inverse function at any time ,
25 Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’
26 If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere .
27 In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 .
28 On the same programme , Lord Mackay said he believed the bill was a full response to the protests he had received since he announced the proposed changes .
29 Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing .
30 No , I I agree with that but I wondered if you had stopped because you introduced the topic and then when when this involuntary and unexpected answer came up you sat down and I thought you might have pursued your original questions .
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