Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ? |
| 2 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 3 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 4 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 5 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 6 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 7 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 8 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 9 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 10 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the third century a new name appeared in Roman records , though the people to whom it was applied had established themselves in the country much earlier . |
| 12 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 13 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 14 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 15 | POLICE divers last night called off their search of a six-mile stretch of the River Nidd near Harrogate , North Yorks , for a four-month-old girl whose mother claimed to have thrown her into the water , and will resume their efforts at first light . |
| 16 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd have had to have taken it during the meal or shortly after . |
| 18 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 19 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |
| 20 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 21 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 22 | But soon — perhaps very soon — I am going to have to lay it on the line , tell them what really has been happening … |
| 23 | I have n't a clue about the layout of this house , so you 're going to have to point me in the right direction ! ’ |
| 24 | So , we 're going to have to borrow one from the , and then put a minus one , put that one there , leaves five , and minus one , minus two , leaves , ca n't do that anyway , so you 're going to have to borrow this one |
| 25 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 26 | Our discussions of last week seem to have lead us to the Railway Tavern at 12–12:30 . |
| 27 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 28 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 29 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 30 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |