Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of last year 's group were interested in going to a church service , so this year I have arranged to bring them to the morning service at St. Clements on Sunday , 15th July . |
| 2 | The advice we have received leads us to the conclusion that we should ask the Court of Appeal to rule on this important point of principle involved in this case . ’ |
| 3 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 4 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 5 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 6 | The truth is that the Labour party does not dare come out in favour of a programme of competition of this nature because it is in hock to the very public sector unions that have sought to oppose it over the years . |
| 7 | Being an unabashed admirer of the Guardian 's Notes & Queries column , I have decided to flatter it in the sincerest way possible . |
| 8 | They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’ |
| 9 | Grand Slam committee administrator Bill Babcock said : ‘ None of us like the situation , but there is undue pressure on him , and we have decided to exempt him from the rule on press conferences for this match , and only this match . ’ |
| 10 | climbing the white horses takes anything from three to five hours … routes up cliffs or pitches as they 're called are well mapped out in the mountain guides … and our team have made made it to the top in good time … |
| 11 | All the major retailers have agreed to fit it into the women 's weeklies ’ ranks . ’ |
| 12 | Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times . |
| 13 | You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints . |
| 14 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 15 | Ever since I first saw a Judas tree , its winter bare branches studded with clusters of rosy-purple blossom , I have meant to plant one in the garden . |
| 16 | The thought of winning a Championship medal also helps him to endure the pain he still suffers , though both Ron Atkinson and Graham Taylor — the latter signed him for Villa — have learned to nurse him through the week and preserve his talents for match-days . |
| 17 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 18 | In the past dozen years an alternative great idea has pulled them westward , as they have tried to dissolve themselves into the European Community . |
| 19 | Several men , faintly sinister and grubby , have tried to approach us in the Metro or on the street . |
| 20 | ‘ I have tried to tell you in the past — at least to make you see — I am not fit for marriage , do n't you understand ? ’ |
| 21 | In this chapter we have tried to convey something of the complexity of the events which are associated with the INSET developments originally conceived as an essential part of the ESSE/L Project aims , and also something of the achievements to which these events have led . |
| 22 | We have tried to convey something of the complexity and texture of the environment within which the project was conceived and developed , and through detailed case studies of three schools to illustrate the project in action . |
| 23 | The experience I have recorded left us with the convictions with which we started in general confirmed . |
| 24 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 25 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 26 | The report 's authors claim that all three major political parties have failed to address themselves to the country 's ‘ housing emergency ’ . |
| 27 | In practice , however , shareholders have rubber-stamped the choices of the company 's top brass , who usually elevate loyal company bureaucrats who have failed to make it to the managing board . |
| 28 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |