Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next month I will finally fall of the back page , to be replaced by columns of Classified Ads inserted by 60-year-old male Vl Diff leaders seeking 24-year-old female partners for climbing and what have you . |
| 2 | The case , Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. , arose from the attempt of Dan Cohen , a Minnesota political operative , to sue two of the state 's largest newspapers for revealing that he had leaked information to them . |
| 3 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 4 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 5 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |
| 6 | Styczynski had x-rays after saying that he had pains in his chest and pins and needles in his arms . |
| 7 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 8 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 9 | In them he took ‘ every opportunity of recommending a rational method of study ’ , and incidentally inculcating his views of sound critical taste ; it would have been a brave student who dared to admire Carlo Maratta , after hearing that he had : |
| 10 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 11 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 12 | ‘ There goes my one moment of glory ’ , he said , after reading that he had lost . |
| 13 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 14 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 15 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 16 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 17 | On March 10 Gustav Just resigned as a Social Democrat ( SPD ) deputy in the Brandenburg parliament after admitting that he had participated in the execution by firing squad of six Ukrainian Jews in July 1941 . |
| 18 | The earlier court had convicted him on Sept. 16 , 1990 , of aggravated murder , after finding that he had ordered troops to fire on demonstrators during the December 1989 riots which led to his father 's overthrow and death [ see p. 37725 ] . |
| 19 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 20 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 21 | Vic Williams has said that he left his regiment only after concluding that he had no other option remaining ( at no time prior to his decision to leave was he made aware of his rights as a soldier to register a conscientious objection to military service ) . |
| 22 | Subjects gave written informed consent after ensuring that they had no metal implants or foreign bodies ( metal implants , excluding dental fillings , will degrade the potential images obtained using MRI ) . |
| 23 | That policy was overturned in two minutes flat but it is worth remembering that it had held sway since the inception of the service areas fifteen years earlier . |
| 24 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 25 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 26 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 27 | Now whenever I speak , this provides grounds for believing that I have vocal chords ; but it does not express that fact . |
| 28 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 29 | Nor does the statutory postponement apply for the purpose of ascertaining whether you have made a complaint to an industrial tribunal within the requisite time limit . |
| 30 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |