Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 A litigant who seeks redress for a public law wrong in a private action must establish , in order to have standing , that the public law wrong has invaded some legal right of his or hers , recognized in private law , or has caused him or her some special damage .
2 To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) .
3 For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic .
4 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
5 that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside
6 If Liu Chang had lied to him , or had given him a signal which would tip Herrick off …
7 It is not pleasant to be shot at , and even the pleasure of being missed is spoilt by the mind 's habit of constructing alternative scenarios ; if the machine-gunner had been a bit quicker to react , or had led us with more skill , we would now be nothing but a heap of molten metal somewhere in the sea-grape .
8 So , after a time , she began to think — when he was so collectedly friendly — that she had imagined more than had really happened , or had imagined it all .
9 Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system .
10 Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ .
11 She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy .
12 What was n't in doubt , however , was the process itself , and even for the 1961–71 period , Champion ( 1976 ) was able to conclude that a marked acceleration had taken place in the rate of outward movement , from the conurbations and large towns , to surrounding areas , and that remote rural areas like the southwest and Wales had either reversed a century-long decline in population , or had reduced it significantly .
13 She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life .
14 … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women .
15 Who ever had it then still had it , or had passed it on .
16 Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it .
17 Animals would have known , would have caught his scent , or have seen him suddenly among them , and they 'd have turned and fled as a herd will turn from a predator .
18 What just leave it here then , or have seen it ?
19 It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure .
20 Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim .
21 I enclose a copy of the letter in case you did not receive the original or have mislaid it .
22 Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it .
23 ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’
24 Since you since you came into the flats have you have you been working at all or have have you been erm
25 Do you come from there or have have you been there ? .
26 If you are sincerely dieting in a way that has led you to lose weight in the past , just stick with the same regime for a further week or two .
27 IT 'S a question that has intrigued us , and doubtless thousands of others , for years .
28 After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support .
29 And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches .
30 ‘ He that has seen me ’ , Jesus said to Philip , ‘ has seen the father . ’
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