Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before .
2 ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there .
3 ‘ The authorities have only allowed me a little time with you .
4 In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes .
5 I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities .
6 I have always found it a great advantage to loathe my political opponents .
7 Its magnitude is given as 6.6 , but I have always found it an elusive binocular object .
8 Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics .
9 Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . '
10 Yet this season , he 's played all but two matches , and since the ‘ 5 man defence ’ appeared when Batty got injured , the reviews I 've read have even called him a Batty replacement , and given him a good write-up .
11 It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play .
12 I have never heard anything a pathetic as this form of statistical necrophilia .
13 But then , I have never found her an easy person .
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