Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender .
2 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 .
3 Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations :
4 But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 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 ’ .
8 Fletcher said : ‘ If we want England sides to perform better overseas then we have got to sort out the itineraries .
9 Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches .
10 Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the
11 We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management .
12 They have got to pin down the Turks for five-minute periods , which will exaggerate the sense of panic in their back four .
13 They have got to find out the rules and then fight by the rules . ’
14 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 .
15 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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