Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan . |
| 2 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 3 | In all known insects , however , a secondary segmentation has become established whereby the intersegmental sclerites have become closely associated with the notum in front or with one behind . |
| 4 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 5 | In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation . |
| 6 | Yet his real concern is that Labour has failed to grasp how the financial and managerial freedom of GM status , bypassing the LEA and channelling extra funds to schools , has improved opportunities for ordinary pupils . |
| 7 | PI has failed to read out the selected modules in the package . |
| 8 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 9 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 11 | We will have to wait to see how the new system works . |
| 12 | No doubt Julius Reuter would have found setting up the famous news agency far easier if he had one to bash out his stories on . ’ |
| 13 | But , she added , the company had undertaken to sponsor only the inaugural event . |
| 14 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 15 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 16 | Similar legislation had also been passed by the Senate , but , reluctant to approve similarly large pay increases for itself , the Senate had voted to reduce gradually the annual total of honoraria which its members could receive [ see also p. 37037 ] . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 18 | Having lost the campaign for the DLP presidential nomination to Kim Young Sam in controversial circumstances [ see pp. 38911 ] , Lee Jong Chan 's possible intervention as an independent had threatened to split further the centre-right vote which was already being sought by both the DLP and the UNP campaigns . |
| 19 | It was also announced that the RSFSR government had decided to merge together the Russian Information Agency and the Novosti news agency ( which had been brought under RSFSR control after the failed coup — see p. 38372 ) as one agency headed by the former Novosti chief Andrei Vinogradov . |
| 20 | E two , now you 've got to work out the average speed , right try and think roughly what the answer would be , because if you thought of that , then you would know that 's a silly answer , cos look , how far is the journey ? |
| 21 | On the other side of the camp he saw Jacques Devraux , already dressed , checking the hides the Moi had finished cleaning late the previous night . |
| 22 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 23 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
| 24 | Back in Vienna , Constanze , for once not pregnant , had begun to take over the financial reins with great aplomb . |
| 25 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 26 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
| 27 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 28 | The reaction was an uproar : Sir Keith had managed to offend both the left and the right , as well as touching on two taboos in one theme : sex and class . |
| 29 | He knew that a bomb disposal man had failed to defuse safely the Argentine bomb lodged in the frigate 's engine room , which had exploded , killing him , and that had started a fire on board . |
| 30 | Claiming that the two main candidates had failed to address seriously the urgent need to reduce the federal deficit , Perot said that he had re-entered the race in order " to put our financial house back in order " . |