Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Beatles , Keegan was a legend in Liverpool and he has given United a dream ticket to ride all the way back to the Premier League . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 3 | Today 's attacks suggest another switch in tactics , back to the use of bombs , although as yet , nobody has claimed admitted sending the letters . |
| 4 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 5 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 6 | Winkelmann , and thus Kauffman , were part of the ‘ invention ’ of the Greeks as the ancestors of western art , an invention which Martin Bernal has shown took place in the 18th century by displacing the existing stories of art — that Greek culture grew out of the Egyptian , African and Semitic cultures of the Mediterranean world — and producing what he calls the ‘ Aryan ’ and highly racist version of that history which denied the impact of Africa and the Semitic ( Phoenicians in particular ) peoples in order to redefine the Greeks as symbols of a specifically white and anti-semitic Europe . |
| 7 | If it 's a pest , cull it properly , get the authorities in , we 've got more and more specialists sitting in those chambers telling us what to do on farming issues , on B S E , we 've got coming , we 've got a a team of experts , well not one of them has told said gone down in favour of hunting . |
| 8 | When talking with children , it is very important not to convey by trying to be gentle , that the person who has died had in any sense a choice in the matter . |
| 9 | It sounds as if the jaw has become dislocated during a bout of mouth wrestling — this is not uncommon in large Cichlids . |
| 10 | The recovery is thus itself an active process ; the system has become dishabituated . |
| 11 | This is called habituation : the nervous system has become familiarized with the particular set of stimuli which are the pressure of the fabric of the clothes on touch receptors in the skin , or of the glass rod on the planarian 's body ; the stimuli can thus be disregarded , no longer a factor to be taken into consideration in assessing the current state of the environment . |
| 12 | ‘ A program is a thought which has become objectified into a sequence of computer instructions . |
| 13 | This has given rise to fears that the electoral process in the US has become corrupted , as money increasingly ‘ buys ’ political influence through elaborate election campaigns that concentrate power in hands of a ‘ small monied minority ’ [ Alexander ] . |
| 14 | Sometimes , in a person who has become sensitized , there may be small vesicles in the shin which release a clear fluid when ruptured after scratching . |
| 15 | In Spain it has become fossilized in the corrida de toros , the bull fights highly ritualized by centuries of performance . |
| 16 | Indeed , once a psychic has become established it seems that nothing — not the most detailed confession , not the most damning exposure — can dent the confidence of believers-And , not content with continuing to believe the evidently fraudulent , they do their very best to draw the exposers into the net . |
| 17 | But the path of political progress has become deadlocked following the breaking off of reform talks with de Klerk in June after the attack on the Boipatong township in which dozens of ANC supporters were hacked to death . |
| 18 | ‘ War puts nations to the test ; and just as Egyptian mummies crumbled into dust when exposed to the shock of air , war spells the sentence of death upon any social institution which has become calcified ’ . |
| 19 | Yet this progress has remained debilitated by a refusal to link such understandings with those concerning what the Chicago School would have called the ‘ culture ’ which human beings consciously make for themselves . |
| 20 | Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja , where he is governor ; it has gone broke . |
| 21 | God has taken columned New York between the knuckles of his right hand — and tugged . |
| 22 | San Rafael , California-based Z-Code Software Corp has signed quoted UK company Admiral Plc 's Admiral Software Ltd , based in Camberley , Surrey , to distribute its line of graphically oriented electronic mail products , Z-mail and Z-mail Lite . |
| 23 | The leitmotif of Coetzee 's book , as suggested by his title , is that the organizations he has studied faced an ongoing dilemma : whether to function as adjuncts of the Conservative party or to claim that their aims were ‘ national ’ and therefore ‘ above party ’ . |
| 24 | We hoped that the US medical team whom we supposed would attend him at Wiesbaden , as we 'd heard had happened with other American hostages , would recognize that he needed a long rest . |
| 25 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 26 | The two sons she 'd reared had left home , and even being married to one of the richest men in Europe could n't compensate . |
| 27 | He never came to terms with losing her , or the fact that people he 'd trusted cheated him . ’ |
| 28 | Every penny he 'd saved had gone to getting the key money for this house , over a thousand pounds , and then the four hundred a month rent . |
| 29 | The strawberry jam she 'd made had n't set , she could n't even take a telephone message . |
| 30 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |