Example sentences of "has [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work .
2 If the patient has successfully carried out the task that was agreed he should now be helped to plan what to do before the next session .
3 Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) .
4 They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help .
5 Fedelma has only started up the business since beginning the course and has found it a ‘ great practical help ’ .
6 Objectivity of the scientific and economic ilk has progressively driven out the Utopianism which had previously permeated science and technology .
7 THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape .
8 When Weissbräu has finally mopped up the market for popular , easily-drinkable wheat beers , it will be glad to have such tasty , characterful brews as a specialist line .
9 After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making .
10 safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night .
11 Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf .
12 Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU
13 It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally .
14 Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma .
15 He has already ruled out the forcing of a by-election by the elevation of a senior Tory MP to the Lords .
16 As Fisher ( 1990 ) has already pointed out the community care reforms are being designed as if everyone who is to receive services feels equally happy about that fact , and can express a reliable opinion about their own need for care , and the success of the service in meeting their needs .
17 Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods .
18 The New Zealanders continue to strive for new Everests in rugby achievement and their coach , Alex Wyllie , has already thrown down the gauntlet by stating : ‘ If we lose a single game we will consider the tour a failure . ’
19 Rushdie has anyway turned down the offer , since , as he says ‘ it 's my job to produce the stuff , not to review it ’ .
20 In 30 years no band has ever come out the system alive .
21 The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts .
22 So far as the attitude to his obstruction is concerned , the essence is that it must be shown that the defendant has deliberately brought about the state of affairs that makes it more difficult for the police to do their duties , and is aware that he has done so .
23 The Security Council has wisely ruled out the death penalty , however much it might seem justified as retribution .
24 Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 .
25 DEC has also set up the Object Database Assessment Team to provide consultancy to customers deciding between an object database or a traditional approach for an application .
26 The commission has also thrown out the idea , put forward by some industrialists and businessmen , that special provision is needed for computer fraud .
27 He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour .
28 The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union .
29 The EC has also taken on the role of policing the exercise of these rights through the Commission and the European Court of Justice , taking its brief from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome 1957 concerning free movement of goods and services , restrictive trade agreements and abuses of dominant trading positions .
30 The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that :
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