Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Friend and photographer Howard Bingham has travelled with him for thirty years .
2 RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades .
3 The proportion of our population aged over 65 has swollen from one in twenty to one in five .
4 ‘ I expect Alice has explained to you about that , ’ he mumbled .
5 It has to cope with anything from 100 to 400 customers at a time .
6 He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt .
7 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 .
8 In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years .
9 My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case .
10 Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag .
11 Yes , one , one thing has occurred to me about this in trying to deal with forms , it seems to me that trying to put a date on a day on it , is absolutely hopeless .
12 If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’
13 Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) "
14 It is an a matter where Miss has spoken to me about this particular case and it
15 I remember a story from my student days which has stuck with me in this way ever since .
16 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 ) .
17 Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result .
18 Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize .
19 He is from Madrid , and although he has lived among us for many years now , he still thinks like a madrileño sometimes . ’
20 We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible .
21 Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way .
22 If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere .
23 ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’
24 I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that .
25 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
26 She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it .
27 It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time .
28 It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case .
29 It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 .
30 When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique .
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