Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 2 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 3 | In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated . |
| 4 | I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years . |
| 5 | From the first texts I published , I have attempted to systematize a deconstructive critique precisely against the authority of meaning , as the transcendental signified or as telos , in other words , history determined in the last analysis as the history of meaning , history in its logocentric , metaphysical , idealist … representation . |
| 6 | When I attempt to run LOTUS 1-2-3 Release 3.0 from windows a message tells me that I have attempted to run a protected-mode application in 386 enhanced and to change to WIN /S or WIN /R . |
| 7 | In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe . |
| 8 | I have tried to convey a pale memory of our meeting , but further than that I can not go . |
| 9 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 10 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |
| 11 | You see , I have come to experience a great truth of life : love . |
| 12 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 13 | He has argued that historians who have sought to identify a Latitudinarian party within the church have been chasing a chimera , as the label was merely a vague , derogatory term devised by embittered contemporary Puritans who felt betrayed by the abandonment of predestinarian theology . |
| 14 | The living is cheap and the people are friendly , with a large contingent of British who have chosen to make a permanent home here . |
| 15 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 16 | And indeed with our external ones also who have continued to provide a significant source of income to our business . |
| 17 | Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected . |
| 18 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 19 | However , this wo n't work if you have begun to enter a new program . |
| 20 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 21 | You have tried to create a new LIFESPAN user using option 7.2.1 — Create User , without having the privilege CREATE USER . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 23 | You have tried to create a new charge code using option 7.7.1 — Create Charge Code and you do not have MANAGER privilege or you have tried to offline a package using option 9.1.0 — Request Package To Be Offlined , and you are not the package manager . |
| 24 | … you have got to make a verbal , visual contact with every child , even if it 's in passing if they 're busy with their work . |
| 25 | You have got to have a new start . |
| 26 | To make your way , you have got to have a proper respect for money . |
| 27 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 28 | Yet , against all odds , he continued , " we have managed to take a gigantic step forward " , and proceeded to enumerate the regime 's achievements in grandiose — and extremely vague — terms . |
| 29 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |
| 30 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |