Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now the red blood cells and so on have leaked out into the surrounding tissues .
2 It is very important that teenagers should never feel rejected by their parents , either because the parents really have given up on them or else because they treat them with coldness and apparent disapproval or dislike .
3 I know that although the doctors have given up on me , the GREAT PHYSICIAN who you and I know will not give up on me .
4 The unit reports to IBM president Jack Kuehler with the mission to retain as customers those users worldwide that have given up on mainframes altogether and are moving to open systems .
5 ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out .
6 We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ?
7 I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 .
8 Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums .
9 When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ .
10 Since November commercial and industrial loans at America 's money-centre banks have fallen by about $6 billion .
11 Prices have fallen by about 20 per cent in Northern France , less in the South .
12 Moreover , the areas where prices have fallen furthest , in the south of the country , are those where the market is weakest — in London and the south east house prices have fallen by over 9% in the last 12 months .
13 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
14 THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges .
15 The ICI shares have fallen back from £14 to near £10 .
16 Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges .
17 Trees in which birds have nested and which provide shade for cattle are also avoided , and trees that are unattractive or have fallen down by themselves are likewise unsuitable for icon making .
18 THE US and Japan have fallen out over supercomputer sales .
19 America and Europe have fallen out over farm trade ; as a result , the negotiations at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) have broken down .
20 Of late , stand-alone evaluation boards have fallen out of favour , mainly for two reasons ; many evaluation boards use difficult to standardise RS-232 links , and the boards require a power supply with +-12V for the RS-232 link and another 5V for the power rail .
21 Other stars to make the list of celebrities who have fallen out of favour are Kim Basinger , Tom Cruise , Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson .
22 Portfolio controls were used intermittently through the 1970s , but have fallen out of favour in the 1980s and early 1990s with the recognition that they distort the workings of the financial system , and that methods of circumventing the controls exist ( see Hall 1983 ) .
23 A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong .
24 These factors have stacked up against the amateur game : a preponderance of Tours to house players ; a huge glamour industry attached to the pro game that seduces the players ; parents wanting to push their sons into a life of perceived prestige and an automatic aspiration to be a pro among most players of ability .
25 They have posted off to Baron Cuvier and Goethe and Dr Buckland and I know not whom else , but to date have received no answer .
26 Specific features such as the horseshoe arch , vault designs , interlacing in ornamental carving and the circular church design appear in widely separated places — Scandinavia , Britain , north Germany , Yugoslavia , Bohemia , for example — and are not Roman features so they would , one presumes , have percolated through from northern Europe rather than southern .
27 Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened .
28 Meanwhile Georgina 's family have travelled down from their home in Gloucester to be at their daughter 's bedside .
29 To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ .
30 Now the political consequences have spilled over into Belorussia , and especially into the Gomel area , the part of Belorussia nearest Chernobyl .
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