Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOCIETY party organiser Lady Elizabeth Anson , a cousin of the Queen , has had to curb her lavish lifestyle after losing millions in the Lloyd 's insurance crash . |
| 2 | In the first case , therefore , the woman has had to shift her economic dependence from her husband to the state . |
| 3 | A ninety-one year old woman , who was beaten up in her own home , has had to have her left eye removed . |
| 4 | For fifteen years Kim Longshaw , who 's a diabetic , has had to inject herself four times a day . |
| 5 | Here then was an instrument that might be confidently expected to have retained its historical integrity . |
| 6 | If they are to give Great Britain a game at Old Trafford on Saturday week , Tony Gordon , Lowe 's successor as New Zealand coach , may have to swallow his pride and call up the likes of Emosi Koloto , Joe Grima and Tony Iro , who appear to have blighted their international chances by making their reputations in England . |
| 7 | According to one commentator , the IS staff themselves appear to have considered their project-based approach to have been the only piece of real teaching going on . |
| 8 | A chair on which he is claimed to have parked his splendid bulk during rehearsals is kept at the Mansion House . |
| 9 | Guerrilla forces were considered to have reached their highest point numerically in September 1949 when approximately 3,000 to 3,200 were operating . |
| 10 | Zubi , who had been Prime Minister since 1987 [ see pp. 36178-79 ] , was reported to have selected his new Cabinet after consultations with the leaderships of the five parties ( including the Ba'ath Party ) which were components of the National Progressive Front . |
| 11 | The national conference was reported to have held its concluding session on Dec. 6 , after electing a 453-member High Council of the Republic under the chairmanship of the Most Rev. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya , the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kisangani , who had chaired the conference . |
| 12 | One Russian officer is reported to have advised his western counterparts to ‘ take seriously ’ rumours that three or four weapons have disappeared in Kazakhstan . |
| 13 | Scientific opinion was divided over the consequences of the war , and some environmentalists were felt to have overstated its negative effects . |
| 14 | The interview seemed to have reached its natural conclusion . |
| 15 | Without the guidance of the nuns , Tilda seemed to have lost her last vestige of moral sense . |
| 16 | And indeed , reality seemed to have lost its accustomed hold , just as the day wavered uncertainly between night and morning . |
| 17 | He seemed to have dismissed their disturbing conversation to some distant recess in his mind . |
| 18 | Marriage to a Frenchman seemed to have erased her Spanish origins completely . |
| 19 | He seemed to have exceeded his own limits . |
| 20 | Jean-Paul seemed to have exhausted his conversational overtures . |
| 21 | And he too seemed to have exhausted his conversational store ; she thought that they would both have liked to continue talking , but they could think of nothing to say . |
| 22 | He whistled mechanically at the back view of a girl waiting to cross the intersection , though of late girls seemed to have lacked their usual charm for him . |
| 23 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 24 | Brian seemed to have forgotten his previous bias against older nannies . |
| 25 | He seemed to have resolved his sexual hang-ups for the time being and was content with his lonely existence . |
| 26 | He seemed to have recovered his good humour . |
| 27 | He became , in short , a story in his own right , the man who was said to have used his great power as Downing Street 's anonymous twice-daily briefer to belittle ministers whom Mrs Thatcher intended to dispose of . |
| 28 | Allegations of purposelessness and postwar ennui , together with declining parental responsibility , were also well in evidence before the ‘ affluent ’ fifties could be said to have worked their moral damage . |
| 29 | He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence . |
| 30 | The Court , however , found on July 29 that there was no case for an interim ruling against the bridge , since Denmark had given assurances that there would be no obstruction of the channel before end-1994 , by which time the Court would expect to have completed its full consideration of the case . |