Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said and we 'll just jot down that you 've extended for twenty eight days . |
| 2 | Lyppard Grange is a listed building so the City Council ca n't have it knocked down but it has applied for a compulsory purchase order . |
| 3 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 4 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 5 | Some drapery establishments were plain , if expensive : Parson Woodforde , paying a call on one in Southampton Street in the October of 1786 , was £13 6s. worse off after he had paid for ‘ … table linnen , muslin , a piece of Holland , cravats , etc . ’ . |
| 6 | She had not been called up as she had to care for her widowed mother and do a Civil Service job . |
| 7 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 8 | ‘ Newcastle claimed they pulled out because I had gone for talks with Wimbledon . |
| 9 | ‘ General Francis and Corporal Wix have been hoping you 'd be back before they had to leave for London . ’ |
| 10 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |