Example sentences of "[prep] have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 2 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 3 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 5 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 6 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 7 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 8 | I accept the judgement of my fellow officers and , before I die , beg their forgiveness for having shamed them before the T'ang . ’ |
| 9 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 11 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 12 | The Disclosure Directive also allows competent authorities to exempt EC-listed companies from the requirement to notify the public if the disclosure would be contrary to the public interest or seriously detrimental to the company concerned ( provided that the public would not be misled ) ; this does not , however , exempt a person acquiring voting rights from having to disclose them to the company if a relevant threshold is reached . |
| 13 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 14 | Britain may still be a country where " everything is permitted which is not specifically prohibited " , but the specific prohibitions have become more numerous , without having to justify themselves against the overriding principle of public interest suggested by the Royal Commission on the Press . |
| 15 | Excessive violence can conveniently be interpreted as paranoia , which makes drugging an acceptable way of handling the behaviour without having to examine anything in the prison system which is causing that behaviour . |
| 16 | WINNERS : Peers of the realm , who can continue to make use of the facilities in the Other Place without having to humiliate themselves at the hustings . |
| 17 | ‘ He said you could grieve without having to prove it to the neighbours by wearing black . ’ |
| 18 | The only th the only thing is , is th is what we 'll do the beer , whether we 're gon na have to connect it to the brewery or whether we can get it through ourselves , I do n't know . |
| 19 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 20 | and then it wo n't be sticky , I ca n't roll it out to make those shapes at the moment cos it 's too sticky , yes we 're gon na have to stick it in the fridge and when it comes out it will be just ready then . |