Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.

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1 Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits .
2 The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions .
3 ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run .
4 His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life .
5 Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement .
6 Irritated by Viola 's habit of slipping into cliches from the West End plays of her youth every time feeling was called for , Greg said : ‘ You 'd seen her earlier in the evening , had n't you ? ’
7 So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it .
8 If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey .
9 He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare .
10 I could have told you that in the first place .
11 In a 3000m race at Stellenbosch in February , the new-look Zola , now markedly more adult in build than in her ill-fated days as a British international , won with a world-class 8:42.26 — a time which would have ranked her third in the the world in 1990 .
12 If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield .
13 And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud .
14 The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure .
15 He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice .
16 " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes .
17 Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow .
18 Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air .
19 So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world .
20 ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’
21 I 've got one free in the afternoon so
22 You 've got your own in the front .
23 Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over .
24 We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house
25 Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation !
26 Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables .
27 When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) .
28 The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall .
29 He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry .
30 But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things .
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