Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone , ’ she announced , her voice suddenly strong again , ‘ someone has to try to prevent poor women from being beaten by great strong brutes . ’ |
| 2 | If I 'd wanted to do red nipples there was n't a decent whole stick of red left . |
| 3 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 4 | I had begun to experience increasing difficulty with reading from about the age of thirteen . |
| 5 | I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia . |
| 6 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 7 | As she got to the bottom Michele appeared in the hall , and said briefly , ‘ There 's nothing to be achieved by staying here , so I 've decided to get straight back . |
| 8 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 9 | But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had to make amazing demands on them by asking them to take time off work . |
| 11 | I 've come to say good night , Lizzie . |
| 12 | Certainly with the roses I use them as a love symbol , I used to always use dead and dried roses but now I 've started to use live ones . |
| 13 | Since erm sexually reproducing organisms are and I 've tried to keep technical jargon in this course to a minimum , but one term we 'll have to learn is diploid , you ca n't do without it . |
| 14 | Agnes shrugged , and the newcomer said : ‘ In a sauna , I 've got to feel real heat . |
| 15 | So I 've got to find other things to do , and doing these concerts will help . |
| 16 | You 've got to erm , I 've got to get well Dad 's got the form I can get another one he can , erm the forms have got to be in soon so she knows how many are going to be sort of on the walls you know . |
| 17 | I ca n't do it , so that I 've got to get full marks for the exam to pass , without the other two bits on it , I ca n't do that |
| 18 | I have decided to fish permanent peg 458 at the Orton upstream stetch of the Nene , near Peterborough , a consistently productive area , even when the fishing 's hard . |
| 19 | I have chosen to avoid aromatic substances known as absolutes and resinoids because these are usually extracted by the employment of environmentally unfriendly solvents such as benzene . |
| 20 | I have tried to confine diplomatic narrative to major episodes to which diplomacy was central . |
| 21 | I have tried to make general observations about the structure of theism . |
| 22 | For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition . |
| 23 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
| 24 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 25 | The procedures which voluntary bodies like ourselves have to follow to obtain small amounts of funding are so intimidating that one wonders whether the effort is worth while , because funding is only the beginning — we have to organise the supply of materials , hire or loan of equipment , payment for purchases , as well as getting the volunteers on and off site and ensuring the work is carried out properly . |
| 26 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 27 | Indeed the whole post-war UFO phenomenon is an example of millenial panic , which has mutated to reflect different anxieties . |
| 28 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 29 | If anybody wishes to see just how pernicious that influence can be , they can look at the Likud government in Israel , which has had to impose repressive legislation at the behest of religious extremists who hold the balance of power . |
| 30 | In this essay I shall look at the way in which female sexuality has been constructed from a particular biology which has had to exclude female desire . |