Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain !
2 There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it .
3 I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides .
4 I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique .
5 Parking where you have done seems a rather unnecessary expense , does n't it ?
6 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 .
7 The broad pluralist term was then especially important in the nineteenth-century development of comparative anthropology , where it has continued to designate a whole and distinctive way of life .
8 If that means that I 've got to upset a few people because I 'm trying to prevent somebody 's life being lost then I will upset those people .
9 The only thing I care about is that I 've got to share a cell with you .
10 One of the most imaginative that I have seen uses a series of bowls and a conventional fountain spray .
11 One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle .
12 Slaughtermen in the UK need to be licensed ( although the requirements are often easily met and there are no statutory national standards ) and those that I have observed take a grim pride in doing the job with efficiency .
13 I sincerely hope that I have managed to strike a balance in the Bill between those two needs .
14 All the personal accounts that I have read convey a sense of isolation , an absence of professional support , and the sheer despair generated by this experience .
15 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 .
16 There is no word , at least in current usage , that does justice to this advanced technique , so I have had to coin a term of my own .
17 Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night .
18 Susan , still in bed , had no idea that she had gone to fetch a doctor , but her arm was so painful that she raised no objections .
19 Then she remembered that she had forgotten to get a receipt from Signor Fixit .
20 Iris , who had spoken in glowing terms of the man and his ambitious undertaking , revealed that she had agreed to tutor a week 's art course for him and immediately suggested that Melissa should accompany her .
21 When it was put to Mona that she had ‘ posed provocatively ’ she replied that she had refused to don a swimming costume for the photos .
22 Informs us that she has managed to buy a piano with her savings . ’
23 You may discover that you 've chosen to fish a line too close in or too far out .
24 the only thing I wondered is if next year that you 've got to do a subsidiary , and if you 've not got a science you must do science
25 The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future .
26 Unless you notify us or your Agent within the time mentioned in our offer or in any event within 7 days of the date of the offer , we will be entitled to assume that you have decided to choose a refund .
27 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 .
28 And so you 've going to see a solicitor , you know what assets you 've got , you know who your family and dependents are .
29 Yes , G R U M P Y , so you 've got to draw a circle round Grumpy
30 Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him .
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