Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to call at the bank , ’ Lowell told her , ‘ so we 'll do your birthday shopping in Bristol and we 'll use the van . ’ |
| 2 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 3 | Okay , the final point on , on the salmon papers , erm , I have noted at the bottom there , that we have not yet settled bids on joint finance for ninety four , five . |
| 4 | I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination . |
| 5 | I have looked at the approach followed in and . |
| 6 | ‘ I have looked at the backlog of repairs and , basically , we are talking mainly about roofs and general structures , then electrical and heating systems . |
| 7 | I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect . |
| 8 | In the 27 years I have worked at the airport , sixteen of those in the fire service , I have seen a huge increase in the number of flights . |
| 9 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 10 | And I need you to sign a consent form before you go as you have spoken at the meeting , okay . |
| 11 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |
| 12 | If , however , you have started at the Bar , there is no reason why you should not apply for any local government post that tempts you . |
| 13 | You have to start at the top of the town that way , and go down over down and come round like that , finish off start down Norwich Road and come up Bury Road . |
| 14 | You have to look at the availability of funds . |
| 15 | You have to look at the way in which children learn , and the principle vehicle through which children learn is associated with visual symbols , and later with the written word . |
| 16 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 17 | ‘ But you have to look at the pattern as a whole , ’ he points out . |
| 18 | The reader has identified with the person you have put at the centre of your story and that person must , for the reader 's satisfaction , bring off the final solution . |
| 19 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
| 20 | For cinemas , you have to guess at the popularity of a given programme : it is , however , possible to buy PG or 15 or 18 only and , now , individual films , while you can also buy an Audience Delivery Plan , guaranteeing a number of admissions . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson said that he could now break the traditional silence of judges about their colleagues and ‘ give voice to the anger and disgust which we have felt at the campaign of calumny waged against you in recent months ’ . |
| 22 | As Einstein expressed it : ‘ The world that we have made at the level of thinking we have done so far , creates problems we can not solve at the same level of thinking ’ . |
| 23 | For the reasons we have endeavoured to state , we give our opinion on this matter that as to the question of law raised by the Attorney-General , which we have cited at the beginning of this judgment , the answer is ‘ No . ’ |
| 24 | The ‘ new consensus ’ emphasizes the importance of non-rational aspects of organizational behaviour , dimensions we have placed at the centre of our analysis of organizational transitions . |
| 25 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 26 | This office is 100 per cent dependent on imports and a high percentage of our fibres is re-exported , so the kind of exchange rate troubles we have got at the moment does n't help . |
| 27 | Exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can . |
| 28 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 29 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 30 | We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ . |