Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refrigeration is another large expense , but we have economised by 20% — and that 's enough power to run all the household fridges in Wolverhampton . |
| 2 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 3 | ‘ Have we not all , ’ he heard himself saying from the pulpit , ‘ as we have gazed on the ruins of the mighty Colosseum … = ’ Well , a few more of his congregation would have done that by then . |
| 4 | Warm shadows have lengthened across the road and the tourists have gone . |
| 5 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 6 | I guess they must have used all the NATO calibre ammo by now and have replenished with 5.56 mm weapons , either supplied by deserters in the Danuese battalions or captured . |
| 7 | ( b ) Using the ratio you have calculated in ( a ) above to divide the profits for Year 51 , prepare a summarised Balance Sheet for Snow , White and Frost at 31 December Year 51 . |
| 8 | City engineers have leaked to the press their previously private warnings to the city of hundreds of signs of hazardous corrosion on four big bridges that span the East river : the Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges . |
| 9 | Some 1.25 tons of the highly toxic liquid chlorobutadiene have leaked into Lough Foyle from a Du Pont plant near Londonderry . |
| 10 | However , the dismal picture which some computer scientists have painted of hackerhood , it should be noted , applies only to extreme cases . |
| 11 | Therefore the boys have painted of the post , which is , ½ of the post . |
| 12 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |
| 13 | The rates of both fatal and other accidents have fluctuated over the years and it is not possible to reach any conclusions concerning long-term trends in socio-economic differences . |
| 14 | Since the early 1980s , the receipts from direct taxes on income have fluctuated around an average figure some 10% above those from indirect taxes on expenditure ; we have returned to the broad pattern of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 15 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 16 | It seems to me that the indication you have given on the key diagram to alteration number three for Harrogate Knaresborough is exactly the same as for example the indication given for York and for Harrogate Knaresborough southern on the approved key diagram . |
| 17 | Easton is the fictitious name we have given to the area of Belfast in which our research was located . |
| 18 | As well as giving presents , let us make sure that we also give of our time and attention to those who care about us and our thanks to those who have given to us . |
| 19 | The address which you have given to us ( ‘ your Registered Address ’ ) is the address to which your Card and any notices or other communications regarding it ( including notification of the PIN ) will be sent . |
| 20 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ From where we are standing we can see examples of the care and attention you have given to the recreation ground and I know all of the clubs who use our facilities thank you for your efforts and hard work . ’ |
| 22 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 23 | Finally , my renewed thanks to you all for the generous support you have given to your parishes and the diocese as a whole . |
| 24 | The title I have given to my paper echoes the extended title of the conference . |
| 25 | As we will see in Part II , the answer which the courts have given to this question is neither an unqualified ‘ yes ’ nor an unqualified ‘ no ’ . |
| 26 | It will be noted that in these remarks we have given to " English " a very wide significance . |
| 27 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 28 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 29 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) would seem to suggest all the experience I have gained and the help and support I have given to young children has no value . |
| 30 | They merely require the knowledge that they have given to their fellows , but most people will wish to have a closer involvement . |