Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 2 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 3 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 4 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 5 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 6 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 7 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 8 | BA has already paid out £610,000 in libel damages and £1 million costs , but Virgin wants the new settlement to cover damage inflicted in the three years of the ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 9 | Until recently , the word has always conjured up pictures of food , which imposed an artificial limit on the range of plants . |
| 10 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 11 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 12 | William Hill said it refuses to accept wagers on the state of royal marriages and has often turned down bets on a Charles and Diana split . |
| 13 | Antonia has now written off Mellor as ‘ an impossible love ’ . |
| 14 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 15 | The recession has cut the number of Thames 's commercial customers and has virtually killed off profits from selling redundant properties . |
| 16 | Cheap fibre imported from the Far East is a growing threat and European viscose rayon rival Lenzing has recently set up business in Tennessee . |
| 17 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 18 | High-tech weaponry has certainly kept down casualties during the air war ( it will have less ability to do so on the ground ) . |
| 19 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 20 | But he revealed today he 'd never given up hope of signing the defender turned striker despite the breakdown of the original negotiations two months ago . |
| 21 | In fact , the very first paragraph of the Brazzaville Conference report had expressly ruled out self-determination as a possibility , and during the RPF years de Gaulle had made fairly explicit statements in favour of preserving the empire . |
| 22 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 23 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 24 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 25 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 26 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 27 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 28 | In the past , Mrs Thatcher had easily fended off challenges from Tory ‘ wets ’ . |
| 29 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 30 | There was a lot of teasing and we had soon thought up nicknames for each other . |