Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband . |
| 2 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received calling for the introduction of internment without trial ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | Glen , 17 , has received backing from the members and officials of Sacriston Workmens Club to assist in paying for costly travel expense . |
| 5 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 6 | If the pipe has leaked owing to other causes such as wear and tear , faulty joints , etc , it would be appropriate to deal with the claim as a burst pipe claim . |
| 7 | One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references . |
| 8 | And she said he has to go trotting to Exeter two or three times a week now . |
| 9 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 10 | The later movements in this symphony are more consistently successful , though the Beethovenian repeated-note fortissimos towards the end of the minuet could be ruder ; while in the Adagio , done with finesse and tenderness of line , the extraordinary nasal timbre of the muted trumpets never really tells — and the eerie sustained low C which should sound after the rest of the orchestra has stopped playing in bar 56 ( 4′43″ ) is quite inaudible here . |
| 11 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 12 | To do this , the researcher has to remain detached from the group at the same time as becoming a member of it . |
| 13 | Since , however , cases concerning property which has devolved according to those provisions will for many years continue to come before the courts , they are summarized in a note at the end of the book . |
| 14 | Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining . |
| 15 | Hydro-Quebec , the state-owned electricity company which is undertaking the James Bay project , has undertaken to comply with all environmental rulings made by the provincial or federal governments , and has invited the IWT to take part in environmental assessment . |
| 16 | And however much she loves her mother , the daughter who has undertaken to care for her in her old age is , in some instances , taking on one of the toughest and loneliest jobs on earth . |
| 17 | The same situation was prevalent in England over a decade ago , and while the new breed of English walls has blossomed to state of the art types such as Newcastle 's Berghaus Wall , Scotland 's walls remain poor relatives . |
| 18 | More recently Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon has given backing for a code , and referred the matter to the parliamentary select health committee for consideration . |
| 19 | The company has , however , gone ahead with £1 million of research into public attitudes to nuclear power and has completed filming at least one television commercial , although it is not known when it will be broadcast . |
| 20 | All this has vanished save for the church , of which St Augustine 's chapel is an original fragment . |
| 21 | One has to try to deal with it . |
| 22 | As you will see from this description of the account executive role in your account group , the agency has to try to allow for different levels of contact with your own organization . |
| 23 | But Christians believe that God acts in history , so the Church always has to try to respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit in each age . |
| 24 | Although the scale of each consultation exercise , and the make–up of the consultation list has differed depending on the topic in question , there are a number of key tasks which have to be carried out . |
| 25 | Eric Howard , manager of Diadora Division Three Bracknell Town , has resigned to move to Division Two Egham Town as general manager . |
| 26 | The precise meaning attached to these terms has varied depending upon the setting in which they were used . |
| 27 | The wasp , whose behaviour appears eccentric but intelligent , invariably leaves the cricket she has caught lying on its back , its antennae just touching the tunnel entrance , while she inspects her burrow . |
| 28 | Leeds has has grown as a financial centre over the last four or five years , probably more than any other city outside London . |
| 29 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 30 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |