Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Whether such attachments are possible will depend very much on how much help and support he or she has received whilst going through the process of loss ( which we will be looking at later ) .
2 and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’
3 He knew what those two victims must have felt when tossed into the heat sink .
4 What must be ascertained is the intention that a reasonable person would have had if placed in the situation of the parties .
5 Sigismund betrayed his promise — he is supposed to have blushed when confronted with the fact — and , after a farcical trial , Hus was burned .
6 He had laughed when told about the ‘ devil group with lots of surplus young girls hanging around ’ .
7 Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship .
8 For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor .
9 The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah .
10 The officer in this case addressed the defendant precisely in terms appropriate to the contingency which had arisen as indicated in the Metropolitan Police pro forma instructions which were current in May 1990 .
11 You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up .
12 I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : .
13 It did , however , make clear the extent to which the Soviet approach to international affairs had changed as compared with the relatively simple priorities of the Brezhnev era .
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