Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's .
2 Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout .
3 And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance .
4 Tabkay says he does n't feel he has given anything up to be a Buddhist monk .
5 But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game .
6 For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know .
7 Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend
8 Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches .
9 The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment .
10 BRIAN MARWOOD , England winger turned Premier League reject , last night heaped gratitude on the man who has booted him out of Sheffield United .
11 What is more , introducing PRP for nurses has added anything up to a billion dollars to administrative costs in the US public sector — a figure which may send shudders down the spine of Britain 's cost-conscious NHS .
12 THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it .
13 ‘ He has won me back to him . ’
14 Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work .
15 Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 .
16 He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’
17 The signing , in the ZOO framework , of the World Monetary and Banking Assimilation Treaty ( WOMBAT ) has written them out of history .
18 Jones , reeling from a £20,000 fine and suspended six-month ban imposed by the FA for his part in a video nasty about soccer dirty tricks , has to pick himself up at Middlesbrough .
19 A PAKISTANI widow is claiming a relative has cheated her out of £36,000 in cash and £20,000 worth of jewellery after her husband 's death .
20 However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place .
21 My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between .
22 Perhaps Jackson has turned something up at the hospital .
23 Thank goodness your boss has turned himself back into a wardrobe …
24 Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one
25 finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup …
26 None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD .
27 She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her .
28 ‘ Normally clients wo n't get the feeling they have had value for money unless they have had a disaster and the lawyer has got them out of it , ’ said , one of the senior partners in Biggart Baillie Gifford 's company and commercial department .
29 Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships .
30 because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people .
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