Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 2 | Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’ |
| 3 | Officers have said they tolerated the old conditions for too long . |
| 4 | I asked if you were sleeping with him , and since you have done everything to evade a straight answer I must assume the worst or the best , depending whose side you are one . ’ |
| 5 | Neither he nor the exiles have done anything to help the starving people who wander the streets of the capital , Monrovia , looking for food and a future . |
| 6 | ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies . |
| 7 | I was never in any doubt that Russell would be successful as a pro and I do n't believe we have seen anything like the best of him yet . |
| 8 | Edinburgh had practically no textile workers , men or women ; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants . |
| 9 | TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision . |
| 10 | Until that time , membership will still be open to people who have shown themselves to possess a broad level of experience in indirect taxation matters . |
| 11 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 13 | His exercise regime is supported by strict adherence to a diet , and together they have enabled him to retain a muscular frame with what he claims is zero body fat . |
| 14 | Fortunately David Peterson 's obvious talent and self-confessed passion for the country have enabled him to present a balanced and interesting collection of images . |
| 15 | Early work focused on single cell correlates of sensory stimulation in anaesthetized animals , but advances over the last twenty years have enabled us to monitor the single-cell correlates of behavioural activity in alert , freely moving animals ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 16 | The developments of artificial light and packaged food have enabled us to develop a certain independence from the natural environment . |
| 17 | Accommodationist Arab states — termed ‘ moderate ’ in the West — have found themselves occupying a difficult position in relation to the rest of the Arab world and to the superpowers outside . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , we have attempted to derive a better index of fetal adiposity than simple birth weight and have found it to have a significant bearing on results of regression analysis , suggesting that maternal glycaemia does have an impact on fetal size independent of maternal weight . |
| 19 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 20 | For her , there were the children growing up , for both of us there was work , and for me that Egypt for which many of us who have known it feel a perpetual nostalgia . |
| 21 | We have asked him to lodge a formal vote of confidence in the government when the Congress resumes today , ’ one source said . |
| 22 | As a result , a number of multi-national companies have emerged which control a large number of foreign subsidiaries . |
| 23 | Further experiences as a journalist have led me to appreciate the real power of the vested interest , the industrial lobby , the vast nationalised undertaking , and last , but not least , the status quo . |
| 24 | Debts of more than £150,000 have forced them to close the tiny store in the village of Great Stukeley in Mr Major 's Huntingdon constituency . |
| 25 | Well it may be incredible , Eva , but in your own budget you have removed you reduced the fixed cost element by fifty percent for sixth forms . |