Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 3 | His counsel sought to have the admissions excluded under PACE. , ss.76(2) ( b ) , and 78 . |
| 4 | At trial , his counsel sought to have the statement excluded because P had not been cautioned again before writing it , which was a breach of the Code . |
| 5 | The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted . |
| 6 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 7 | These were the number accidents the driver reported having being involved in over the past five years and the number of near misses they had experienced in the previous year . |
| 8 | In June Austrian police had seized weapons-grade uranium reported to have been smuggled from the former Soviet Union [ see p. 38987 ] . |
| 9 | They gave examples of how some of their attempts at building up self-esteem seemed to have worked . |
| 10 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 11 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 12 | While Nottingham Forest are aiming for a record fifth League Cup success , it remains the one domestic trophy United have never won . |
| 13 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 14 | Sir Hector claimed that the £120,000 loss seemed to have been arrived at by applying the £2.25 HLCA reduction to most of the sheep flock . |
| 15 | It is all to do with the most effective means to ends , at least some of which must be given ( and thus are perhaps open to structural explanations of how the agent came to have them ) . |
| 16 | His mind seemed to have gone into a paralysing panic . |
| 17 | I found that my grasp on the image itself was now hazy , the very mechanisms of my mind seemed to have been injected with lobal anaesthetic , blown up into a fuzzy ineptitude . |
| 18 | She was still slim , but her figure seemed to have wasted slightly ; she was still pretty , but her features were more sharply etched . |
| 19 | There is no doubt in de Man 's mind that the image plays a central role in Proust 's thematic opposition , but when one follows " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , the function of the image is subverted : " statements or strategies that tended to remain unnoticed become apparent and undo what the figure seemed to have accomplished " . |
| 20 | Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides . |
| 21 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 22 | An uneasy tension seemed to have fallen between them again , as if the hot , searing flash of passion inside the cave had been a product of their environment , and not of their own feelings for each other . |
| 23 | And the tension seemed to have affected her in other ways , too . |
| 24 | The wind seemed to have dropped and everything seemed peaceful , when he was aware of a noise outside the box . |
| 25 | The rain had stopped ; even the wind seemed to have eased , and the banner-pole no longer creaked so eerily above the roof of his chamber , as though the calming thought of her had its benign influence even on the elements . |
| 26 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 27 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 28 | Whatever warning might have been given earlier , little arousal seemed to have resulted . |
| 29 | All the swims that have given me good dace fishing seemed to have shared similar features , the main one being their tendency to become shallower towards the tail . |
| 30 | The source could only be the south-facing windows , but there was n't a glimmer in that direction ; the light seemed to have slid through without touching the stone shutters . |