Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy .
2 When I have finished reading out the list , I shall tap on the table .
3 In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender .
4 I have tried to build up a repertoire that incorporates only pieces I can live with throughout an entire lifetime .
5 I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside .
6 Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations :
7 But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer .
8 Just look at some of the people who have managed to hold down the job over the years : Tommy Docherty , Malcolm Allison , Bobby ‘ Rattling Dentures ’ Robson , most of the 1970–71 Leeds side ( although none of them for very long ) , Alan Ball and various sad , ex-midfield maestros who later became senior sales executives ( North Lincolnshire Region ) for foot-salve manufacturers and double glazing distribution companies .
9 You have tried to read out a complete package using option 1.3.1 when one or more modules are HCOA ( Hard Copy Only Available ) or their selection within the package does not exist .
10 This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class …
11 1 Are there special words in your area for any of these : child , playing truant , sandwich , packed lunch , look at , very surprised , too hot ( of a person ) , wood for the bonfire. 2 What other words and expressions are special to your area ? 3 Use the ideas you have got to make up a local phrase book for your area .
12 Whether you have chosen to write out a full speech or to use comprehensive , ordered notes , there will be your main prop .
13 On the other hand , a pro-rights clergyman suggested that it is our traditional despotic treatment of the non-human creation which has been truly infantile , and that it is only in this century that we have begun to grow up a little .
14 ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’
15 We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ .
16 Fletcher said : ‘ If we want England sides to perform better overseas then we have got to sort out the itineraries .
17 Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches .
18 Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the
19 We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management .
20 They have got to pin down the Turks for five-minute periods , which will exaggerate the sense of panic in their back four .
21 They have got to find out the rules and then fight by the rules . ’
22 He sees Ecstasy largely in terms of the market place : ‘ Professional criminals have realised there is money to be made and over two years they have managed to take over the market .
23 They are also proud they have managed to build up a good trade but after 15 years service at the Travellers Rest , Cockerton , the couple plan to quit in June .
24 Write briefly how you , as a receptionist , would deal with the situation where guests complain that their room has not been cleaned and they have had to wait over a half an hour for room service .
25 Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves .
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