Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 2 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 4 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 5 | I am happy there at the moment , and I want to repay Yorkshire for all the support they have given me over the years . ’ |
| 6 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 7 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 8 | Appreciative of the loyalty you have given us in the past , we are once again asking for your support . |
| 9 | The mechanical card operated locks have distinguished themselves over the years with proven durability and reliability as well as pure simplicity . |
| 10 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 11 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 12 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 13 | We went to him and said : ‘ We have hidden something for the Man under one of your boats . ’ |
| 14 | In recent months several TH contributors have treated us to a wealth of extremely useful information , advice and tips on how to achieve success with a detector when searching the country 's transport routes . |
| 15 | We have treated it as a subject , but at the same time a method , the principal method whereby education may achieve its ultimate aim of giving a wide outlook on life . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this . |
| 17 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |
| 18 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
| 19 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 20 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 21 | Nowhere is this as clearly illustrated as in the struggles of black workers and in the way in which white workers have aligned themselves with the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 22 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 23 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 24 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 25 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 26 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 27 | I 've not said more than two words to her since then , but they remember her mother ( so charming , so ladylike , so rich ) because they have placed her in a box in their heads marked " suitable " . |
| 28 | ‘ Eternal Father , you have placed us in a world of space and time , and through the events of our lives you bless us with your love . |
| 29 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 30 | ‘ I have to like them on the phone , ’ she says . |