Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't want my clients to have to make the decision and feel guilty about saying no . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 3 | Erm well it makes sense but I 'm , I 'm glad you cos I mean my bonuses have gone down , I mean they have n't gone up then why is that ? |
| 4 | After I turned the engine off and opened the door , I found my legs had turned to blancmange and moulded themselves into a sitting position . |
| 5 | Thanks very much , and if you er were to er , accidentally lose some files , you would know which files have gone missing . |
| 6 | The ceiling had the creamy colour of a pub and everything in the place smelled ; it was always a simple matter to discover which files had passed through James 's hands , just by sniffing them . |
| 7 | If business leaders , who say their companies have benefited from previous privatisations , do not support such changes why should anybody else be expected to ? |
| 8 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 9 | MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them . |
| 10 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 11 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 12 | The widow of Alfred McTear , who died before completing his legal battle against a tobacco company , says she 's amazed her lawyers have agreed to continue the case free of charge . |
| 13 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 14 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 15 | In supposedly dog-friendly Britain , getting accommodation and keeping your pets have become regularly conflicting objectives . |
| 16 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 17 | The report , the second of its kind , said that the situation had deteriorated ; the percentage of mills breaching their limits had risen from 65 per cent before 1990 , to 75 per cent in the 1990-92 period . |
| 18 | The police who had occupied the flat while they made their searches had left plenty of traces of their stay . |
| 19 | In its annual report , published in November , Lautro weighed into the life offices , complaining that the unexpectedly high costs of policing their activities had dented its finances , and beefing that members had not taken the task of compliance seriously . |
| 20 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 21 | Many companies which have empowered their employees have seen impressive gains in productivity and quality and improvements in industrial relations . |
| 22 | Although most patients who cut their wrists have experienced psychiatric symptoms , they do not fit into any one category of psychiatric diagnosis . |
| 23 | ‘ I told her things have changed . |
| 24 | He believed his circumstances had changed . |
| 25 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 26 | Stewart 's refusal to state his claims has angered Javed Miandad 's men . |
| 27 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 28 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 29 | The tables on page 54 show what men have done , what they 'd like to do and what they have no intention of doing . |
| 30 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |