Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies .
2 BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 .
3 It is management that have to address themselves to the solutions , either by using internal resources or by engaging outside consultants .
4 Over here it does n't even look as if you need access to the Royal Mint or the Bank of England to forge bank-notes , judging by the warning messages on the colour photocopiers that have stationed themselves inside the printing bureaux .
5 It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action .
6 Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre .
7 As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need .
8 H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill .
9 Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ .
10 This particular project began in Liverpool in 1976 and has established itself as a national model for radical working-class adult education .
11 Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations .
12 Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all .
13 She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better .
14 On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there .
15 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
16 " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) .
17 And then suddenly she felt something running up her leg she looked down it was the spider , it had left Mademoiselle a long time ago and had secreted itself under a desk afraid of all the trampling feet around .
18 Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves .
19 Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an .
20 Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it .
21 The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting .
22 The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs .
23 It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " .
24 The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t .
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