Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 32 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 33 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 34 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 35 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 36 | And we 've attempted to cost out the work that 's done against the resources . |
| 37 | ‘ We 've got to sort out the balance between club and country because it 's very important to both sets of managers . |
| 38 | No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’ |
| 39 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 40 | Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine . |
| 41 | The plans we had have gone out the window . |
| 42 | We and others have therefore introduced a sort of helicopter scanning of technological progress throughout the world from which we have sought to see where the enabling inventions may lie . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 44 | 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 ’ . |
| 45 | Fletcher said : ‘ If we want England sides to perform better overseas then we have got to sort out the itineraries . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 47 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 48 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 49 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 50 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 51 | We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management . |
| 52 | " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . " |
| 53 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 54 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |
| 55 | they 've had to close down the spi , and that . |
| 56 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 57 | In four days of meetings they had managed to decide only the names of the principal members of the embassy . |
| 58 | They have got to pin down the Turks for five-minute periods , which will exaggerate the sense of panic in their back four . |
| 59 | They have got to find out the rules and then fight by the rules . ’ |
| 60 | Almost all prosodists will acknowledge this in theory ; in practice they have continued to examine only the linguistic surface of poetry and to regard its prosodic elements as themselves elements of rhythm . |