Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 3 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 4 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 5 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 6 | Feminists were effectively articulating what had been implicit in much of moral purity — an opposition to the idea that the male sexual urge was uncontrollable , and that frequent intercourse was necessary for men 's health . |
| 7 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 8 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 9 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 10 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 11 | The effect of placing the short sentence at the end is powerful : whereas other sentences relate the setting to the observer , this one relates the observer to his setting , and thereby summarizes what has been implied in the rest of the paragraph . |
| 12 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 13 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Would you rather know what 's happened or what 's happening ? |
| 15 | Right has everyone had a chance to look at some stuff since last time ? |
| 16 | But he put a hand on my shoulder and said , in that philosophical , gravelly voice he had , ‘ All we have to believe in is our children . |
| 17 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 18 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 19 | Money problems are not the only difficulties facing women whose pregnancy was unexpected and unwanted ; the nausea of morning sickness and later on their appearance can prove traumatising to women , especially schoolgoers who have to put up with constant rumours and whispering . |
| 20 | Mike suddenly realized what had happened . |
| 21 | A heavy silence filled the air and Newman suddenly realized he had heard no birds sing since they entered the area . |
| 22 | I , I I went to as we came down , suddenly realized you 'd got somebody there you were obviously deep in conference so er |
| 23 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 24 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
| 25 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 26 | Having , with spectacular lack of vision , left the door open to the Japanese in the early BMC-British Leyland doldrum management days , Land Rover 's lethargic parent suddenly realised it had missed the boat in a rapidly expanding market sector , and did something about it . |
| 27 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 28 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 29 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 30 | He breathed a sigh or relief when Mrs Long announced he had polled 31 . |