Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 .
2 He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated .
3 There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show .
4 But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest .
5 Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice .
6 These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary .
7 The side has also welded together emotionally and some of the players who went to Argentina have a great future in the game .
8 The distribution of responsibilities between local , national , public and voluntary sectors has also become less rather than more clear , which reduces the possibilities of accountability .
9 Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned !
10 One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man .
11 The greatest of them is the state , which has everywhere taken on more and more tasks in recent decades which have swollen its administrative archives .
12 It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled .
13 One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out .
14 The Plym has never fished so well and enthusiasts report catches of up to eight fish per session with a high percentage of 2 lb plus specimens .
15 Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers .
16 Vern said it looked like the owners were coming to use the boat again soon : we 'd better clear off quick before it was light in the morning , specially as it 'd be Saturday .
17 ‘ I 'd better go round there and apologise right away . ’
18 ‘ We 'd better go in anyway or we 'll end up having to sit in the shade for the rest of the week . ’
19 ‘ Well you 'd better go home then and get your tomato ketchup . ’
20 She 'd better go down quickly before he started to get suspicious .
21 ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver .
22 And they 'd better learn right now that it 's going to be them .
23 " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . "
24 " You 'd better ride back now and check the baggage carts , " he said sharply .
25 Before you start to get excited about the prospect of having a brand new machine I 'd better say right now that not all machines are suitable .
26 Because if not , you 'd better say so now and I 'll go away and never bother you again .
27 The men tell us we 'd better get off now and spend the night somewhere .
28 I think you 'd better get down now because you 're going to hurt yourself .
29 ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’
30 ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities .
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