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

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1 He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated .
2 There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show .
3 But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest .
4 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 .
5 These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary .
6 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 .
7 Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned !
8 One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 She 'd better go down quickly before he started to get suspicious .
13 ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver .
14 " 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 . "
15 I think you 'd better get down now because you 're going to hurt yourself .
16 ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’
17 ‘ 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 .
18 By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’
19 He 'd just gone down there because er .
20 The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital .
21 ‘ No , she only gives me money ter do the errands an' then I 'ave ter go back twice because I car n't carry them all in one go .
22 Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ?
23 Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking .
24 It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity .
25 You had better go home now before it gets too late .
26 Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence .
27 Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum .
28 But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road .
29 You 've already stayed much later than you said . ’
30 He had hardly sat down again when there was another strong kick at the door .
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