Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man who spoke about already having made the decision to only have safer sex was ridiculed by some of the others . |
| 2 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 3 | Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape . |
| 4 | I ca n't seem to find a copy of any report which was produced as a result of this survey , and I have no recollection of ever having received a copy , but presumably it would contain enough data for your new placement student to re-input . |
| 5 | He helps Pancks , whose landlord he is , to establish Mr Dorrit 's claim to his inheritance , and while Clennam is imprisoned in the Marshalsea he keeps an eye on his affairs ; Anastasia , his unprepossessing , middle-aged daughter , who cherishes the recollection of once having won an action for breach of promise . |
| 6 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 7 | Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress . |
| 8 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 9 | However , the surest way of never having to experience the misery — the most frequently occurring word associated with debt — the misery of debtors down the ages in Britain from Tom Verney to Sue and Tony , was to follow the time-honoured , still practical advice of Lord Chesterfield , Samuel Smiles et al that made boring but good sense in any age . |
| 10 | One way of never having to become a hostage to the tolerance of a credit-giving retailer , the patience of a money-lender , the goodwill of a pawnbroker , to surrender to the sorrow of exile or the safety of sanctuary , was to emulate Thomas Creevey of whom Charles Greville wrote in his journal in 1829 : |
| 11 | He tried to keep his voice firm , but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him . |
| 12 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 13 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 14 | The news from Gatow that Heydrich had flown north had been the great shock , the confirmation of all their fears , but Heydrich for once had missed the boat . |
| 15 | She smiled at him softly , he looked so young and vulnerable in the too-big night-shirt , a child who until now had borne the responsibilities of a man . |
| 16 | It seems everyone is intrigued by Morse , whose past until now has remained a secret . |
| 17 | no one until now has produced a biography of Graham Gooch . |
| 18 | I mean there was er on the television and etcetera only the two weeks ago , we had two of the girls from here had made an approach about AIDS . |
| 19 | Yet having endured it , there is a certain frisson of self-congratulation to be had from simply having survived the experience . |
| 20 | But there is no doubt that several new players from abroad have set the league alight this season without overshadowing encouraging performances from homegrown talent . |
| 21 | In short , Avenches , lying aside a little from the bypassing main road from Bern to Lausanne , offers a new perspective on the Swiss Mittelland for the visitor who may only until then have known the ski or climatic resorts of the mountain regions . |
| 22 | Nearby was moored an old wooden riverboat , one of two such boats which until recently had served the run between Aswan and Wadi Halfa . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm very fond of it , but until recently had to forgo the pleasure . |
| 24 | But at least they had removed the studio photograph of a royal princess which until recently had graced the entrance hall . |
| 25 | Surely the Pharisees themselves should be judged , if not charitably , at least fairly : from their own literature ( which the Jewish and Christian scholars referred to above have taken the trouble to study ) rather than from the taunts of their opponents . |
| 26 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 27 | But 1989 will always be remembered for a bizarre week that resulted in him playing for Munster without ever having worn the Cork senior colours . |
| 28 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 29 | Few former colleagues had much idea of what anthropology was and many seemed never to even have heard the word . |
| 30 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |