Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friend and photographer Howard Bingham has travelled with him for thirty years . |
| 2 | The proportion of our population aged over 65 has swollen from one in twenty to one in five . |
| 3 | It has to cope with anything from 100 to 400 customers at a time . |
| 4 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 5 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 6 | If your new employee falls sick and has worked for you for eight weeks or less , check whether they have any of these linking letters from the Department of Social Security : BF218 , BF220 , BM7 or BM8 ( or BF219 in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 7 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 8 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 9 | It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 11 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 12 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 13 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 14 | ‘ Something might well have happened to her after eight days . |
| 15 | Having lived with it for 19 months , John Dyer , an unlikely champion of investors ' rights and one of the few ‘ fortunates ’ not hit hard by the collapse , was fulsome in his praise for BCIG 's supporters . |
| 16 | That is what you would have paid for it in 1982 . |
| 17 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 18 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
| 19 | Wisteria frutescens , a climbing shrub known as the Carolina kidney bean tree and Ascryum hypericoides , St Peterswort , were both depicted , also Myrica cerifera , fully described in Catesby 's book , and Fraxinus caroliniana , seeds of which Miller had received from him in 1724 . |
| 20 | The Census of 1981 revealed that this figure had dropped to one in five residents in Wales . |
| 21 | He did n't like to think too much about one of the conversations that Jack Ashdown had reported to him on one of Joe 's occasional check-ins . |
| 22 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 23 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 24 | Philip Mairet had written to me on 14 February 1937 saying that Eliot had ‘ promised ’ an article . |
| 25 | Now the door had closed on them in three more weeks scheduled for Spain . |
| 26 | I 've slept in it fer forty yer or more and I ent dead yet , and that basket at the end is Sammy 's bed , when he 's a mind . ’ |
| 27 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 28 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 29 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 30 | No sound had emerged from it for six months : spare parts were hard to get , Dynmouth Hi-Fi Boutique informed him . |