Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion was that " the School has fallen off lamentably in the higher branches of education " . |
| 2 | Its autumn survey says that home owners feel that prices have now bottomed out , even though activity has fallen off significantly since the summer . |
| 3 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 4 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 5 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 6 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 7 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 8 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 9 | A colony of bats has set up home along the banks of the River Thames . |
| 10 | For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously . |
| 11 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 12 | THE music business that millionaire Richard Branson sold to Thorn EMI for £560m has paid off handsomely for the leisure giant . |
| 13 | He bumped into some people waiting to join the queue for the seats in the reception area ( ha ; he 'd got in just before the rush ! ) , and went out through the doors back to the street and the bright sunlight . |
| 14 | He 'd got off lightly with the men earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ Which means Butler will have to go back soon to the States for more funds , ’ Regan said . |
| 16 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 17 | Like you say , you might have moved down here before the — — |
| 18 | She might have laughed out loud at the absurdity of her error had it not disturbed her so . |
| 19 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 20 | He could have kicked around forever in the States , and if he had never come here he might have never gotten anywhere . |
| 21 | He would have rested up there for the night , of course , and would drive down in the morning . |
| 22 | ‘ They should have spoken up more during the election campaign , ’ adds a critic . |
| 23 | You should have spoken out boldly before the prince . |
| 24 | Psychotic tortoises would have gone down well on the North Gate . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Those people who make the decisions should have gone out early in the morning and tried to putt to the holes we had to play to , ’ he added . |
| 26 | you know she has n't worked so she thinks that , you know , save her having to get up early in the morning , go and do the fire |
| 27 | Well , you do n't have to get up early in the morning and go out to work , do you ? |
| 28 | One would expect both to have experienced upheavals , having completed about four years primary education before having to take up again in the UK . |
| 29 | And , having held off longer in the vain hope that the negative economic signals would prove false , IBM 's European and Japanese customers will be obligated to make more drastic cutbacks in mainframe expenditures than will their American counterparts . |
| 30 | That meant there was no hurry , they could have lain out there in the sun till the pubs opened . |