Example sentences of "have [vb pp] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Gladstone , 23 , has telephoned and written to dozens of companies for a chauffeur 's job . |
| 2 | ‘ The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Comforts Fund Musical Festival is a part of our community roots that has grown and flourished for one hundred years . |
| 3 | It is a first-hand account by someone who has met and talked with many of the creators of modern quantum theory , and who remarks that by the 1970s ‘ my collection of notes and transcripts of tape recordings of conversations , discussions and interviews had become quite large ’ . |
| 4 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 5 | Simion Crisan , a Romanian international , has defected and asked for political asylum in West Germany . |
| 6 | Simion Crisan , a Romanian international , has defected and asked for political asylum in West Germany . |
| 7 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 8 | He has played and recorded as principal bassoon for the BBC Concert Orchestra , Scottish Chamber Orchestra , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and London Mozart Players . |
| 9 | ‘ She has worked and planned towards this dual-presidency for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 11 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 12 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
| 13 | Old age is not a sudden event : those becoming dependent must have anticipated and prepared for this stage in some characteristic way , even if by denial . |
| 14 | There are n't many women who would have gone and complained about that . |
| 15 | Not a big problem , but enough of one to have tried and failed for several years at everything from Weightwatchers to F-Plan . |
| 16 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 17 | In 1988 , paintings on loan from the New York Public Library were found to have mildewed and rotted in one of the society 's warehouses . |
| 18 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |
| 19 | Her marriage to Estabrook had come and gone along that river , and a good deal of pain with it . |
| 20 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 21 | We 've looked and looked at this still from the StarBalls demo and STILL ca n't think of anything to say about it . |
| 22 | Freddie , who worked for the youth department of the Jewish community in Rosenstrasse , had organised and travelled with many transports , until finally he was warned : ‘ You either stay in England or you 've had it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I could lose everything I 've earned and fought for all my life to get where I got . |
| 24 | Behind the famous outcry of the converted Muslim princess in his poem lay a century in which theologians had humanized Christian teaching , and Christian and Muslim had met and mingled on all the frontiers of southern and south-eastern Christendom . |
| 25 | The once fine linen had thinned and shrunk with frequent laundering , with the result that the garment only reached just past her knees and did little to hide the curves of her body . |
| 26 | ‘ The old lion had raged and roared in vain ’ concluded Bellamy . |
| 27 | ‘ Rewind the film ’ , and visualise what you wish you had said and done in that situation . |
| 28 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 29 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 30 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |