Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 2 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 3 | So we 're interested in two elements here of this multi-element We 're not interest in the materials we 're only interested in controllable money which I 've decided that at the minute will be labour and plant . |
| 4 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |
| 5 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 6 | Yes I it 's a it 's I 've contemplated because at the end of the day any appeal decision was er one in favour of the council 's position . |
| 7 | ‘ By looking at what happens after the long-stay hospitals have closed and at the fate of people who might in the past have found their way into such institutions ’ , MIND argued , their survey ‘ offered a more exacting test of care in the community . ’ |
| 8 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 9 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |