Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 2 | One bit of good news is that prices have stopped falling in the south — where CALA has 60 per cent of its sales and where the recovery is most noticeable . |
| 3 | I have to go do on the floor |
| 4 | ‘ We have to continue to invest in the field organisation and in research and development , ’ White said . |
| 5 | All accommodation listed within this guide consists of inspected properties and those who have undertaken to abide by the Tourist Board Code of Conduct . |
| 6 | Certainly you are obliged in this game which you have undertaken to play against the reader ( while at the same time telling a good story ) to state the physical circumstances necessary to unmasking the murderer . |
| 7 | The Witches have received backing from the Speedway Control Board and the BSPA for their appeal to the Department of Employment over last week 's ruling to refuse a work permit . |
| 8 | The amount of rainwater ( also known as surface water ) with which the gutters have to cope depends on the area of the roof from which the water is collected and , of course , on the amount of rain likely to fall on it . |
| 9 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 10 | • If we work at night , and have to try to sleep during the daytime , we have difficulty in adjusting our habits in spite of having an ‘ active ’ environment at night and a quiet , sleep-conducive environment ( a quiet , darkened bedroom ) during the daytime . |
| 11 | The smaller projects lack the glamour that the American public and politicians have come to associate with the word ‘ space ’ ; and the larger missions are too expensive for NASA operating on a Reagan-sized budget . |
| 12 | There is , therefore , none of the fitful air of discontinuity about the Schrödinger equation which we have come to associate with the quantum world . |
| 13 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 14 | If they have come to rest through the act of sale to a stranger then , what was their price ? , and , in what currency were they purchased ? |
| 15 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 16 | During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service . |
| 17 | In the Western world , two approaches have come to dominate in the course of the past 50 years : a medical approach and an educational approach . |
| 18 | The Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill follows a course that we have come to expect from the Home Secretary and the Government . |
| 19 | However , lively detail is no substitute for an integrated texture of the sort we have come to expect from the WNO chorus and orchestra . |
| 20 | Many new readers of this illustrious organ have written to grumble about the unavailability of decent C64 datarecorders . |
| 21 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 22 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 23 | Solent Stars , last in the Carlsberg League but unhappy with its organisation , have decided to withdraw at the end of the season . |
| 24 | the owners have decided to sell without the assistance of any M&A adviser ; |
| 25 | 15 The high quality of the environment in the project areas provides a spectacular contrast with unreconstructed streets nearby — and indeed with the public environment we have grown to accept as the norm in Britain . |
| 26 | Part of the problem is that employees have grown used to the idea that they are not supposed to take initiatives . |
| 27 | I have grown used to the fact that I will never ‘ convert ’ some colleagues however enthusiastic , persuasive or reasoned I am . |
| 28 | Just as viewers of cop programmes become immune to scenes of violence , NFL fans have grown used to the procession of injured players leaving games . |
| 29 | The latest item of aggravation comes from the traffic and drivers on the commuter rail line who have threatened to strike for the day because of the extra work caused by the opening of Disney station . |
| 30 | In the past , some terminal manufacturers have developed proprietary solutions to the problem of adding windowing functionality to character-based applications , but these have tended to fall by the wayside . |