Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 2 | Well , that of course er may be true but er as the Group Captain has has said here in the reduced er spec position which we now face and judgement was taken as to how much we should invest in stocks of reserve drop tanks at this point and the option exists to order more . |
| 3 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 4 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 5 | She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits . |
| 6 | It 's the first chance everyone has had to work together with the technology , and it shows . |
| 7 | IN a week when Mark McNulty has had to pull out of the Jersey European Airways Open with a bad back , Sam Torrance , the holder , has come to La Moye with his hands covered in blisters . |
| 8 | Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 . |
| 9 | Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment . |
| 10 | That is , the OALDCE is taken as being an addition to the corpus , each word and each of its tags is considered to have occurred once in the corpus . |
| 11 | On April 10 a pro-Soviet PCCh faction claiming 2,000 supporters was reported to have split away from the main party when a group of leading members resigned accusing the leadership of a " lack of internal democracy " . |
| 12 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 13 | President Babangida of Nigeria was reported to have responded favourably to the delegation . |
| 14 | On April 4 the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church was reported to have voted unanimously for the reinstatement of its former head , Patriarch Teoctist Arapas , whose known complicity with the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu had led to his " withdrawal " on Jan. 18 to the monastery of Sinaia , 120 km north of Bucharest [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 15 | But the 2 men are reported to have settled amicably with the Robert Maxwell-owned printers . |
| 16 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 17 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 18 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 19 | Almost 88 per cent of the 2,683 varieties which our grandparents enjoyed have vanished along with the Lincoln , the Washington and the Jefferson apples . |
| 20 | The way in which things are made has changed slowly through the millennia and much more rapidly during the last two centuries . |
| 21 | I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 23 | The Nazareans or the Nazarean Party — the so-called ( and misnamed ) ‘ first Christians ’ or ‘ Early Church ’ — do not appear to have differed doctrinally from the groups generally known as Essene or Zadokite . |
| 24 | The hard core of support seemed to have risen slightly during the year , but voting Green in the Euro-elections had not for most of the voters signified a new allegiance . |
| 25 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 27 | Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man . |
| 28 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 29 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 30 | ‘ When did you make contact ? ’ asked old Mr pugh , who seemed to have recovered completely from the compost . |