Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Question time has become increasingly taken up with party claims and counter claims or with constituency points , while debates often strike ministers as largely a waste of time . |
| 2 | Pornography means more than most people would have us believe , but the word has become so weighed down with negative associations that we tend to shy away from it . |
| 3 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 4 | This combination of measures has pulled home shopping up from its early '80s doldrums : '89 turnover was £956 million and pre-interest profits a reasonably respectable £54.4 million . |
| 5 | I suppose what 's happened is this : he has gone on staring out of the window , thinking , and she has gone on staring at him , waiting , with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out . |
| 6 | It did n't matter which lead mode I selected , when I 'd pulled enough gain out of the system to create the required feel , the volume had all but gone , rendering the sound pretty unusable since it was way below that of my other patches . |
| 7 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 8 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 9 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 10 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 11 | He might have ended up finding out about your travels . ’ |
| 12 | An' 'e said , ‘ All workers 'ave got ter rise up against the bosses an' seize the means o' production , an' that day 's not far orf . ’ |
| 13 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 14 | You 've come here to take up with Sergius ? ’ |
| 15 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 16 | Tony had decided not to go out with them , as he felt self-conscious about having to borrow money from his father to pay for drinks . |
| 17 | It kept us in harbour until the following afternoon when , we decided it had moderated enough to push on to Tobermory . |
| 18 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |
| 19 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 20 | The harsh lights that the photographers had used still glared down on the scene . |
| 21 | They had escaped detection from the air , in spite of the large number of vehicles involved , but had had to abandon the tanks which had become hopelessly bogged down in the sand . |
| 22 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 23 | With typical American generosity of heart , his mother had set out to make up for his disabilities . |
| 24 | He nodded towards Thomas , who had wandered off to squat down on the terrace and poke at something at the foot of the vines . |
| 25 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 26 | There was one scene which for months she had tried resolutely to put out of her mind , that last meeting in the staffroom , the circle of implacable faces , brown , black and white , the accusing eyes , the insistent questions . |
| 27 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 28 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 29 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 30 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |