Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Thirdly , the three payments to which I have referred formed parts of larger quarterly payments , the other parts of which were agreed to have been correctly charged .
2 Thirdly , the three quarterly payments to which I have referred formed parts of larger quarterly payments , the other parts of which were agreed to have been correctly charged .
3 It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades .
4 I do not consider he or she a terrible mistake which I will regret for the rest of my life , and I do n't feel I have lost important years of my adolescence .
5 It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat .
6 I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump .
7 On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation .
8 As I explained in my statement on 27 November , I have undertaken intensive discussions with a wide range of major and conflicting interest groups on possible ways of reforming the Sunday trading laws for England and Wales , and they will continue next year .
9 I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway .
10 I have visited sixth-form colleges in Thurrock and Boston this year , and I recently addressed the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges for Further and Higher Education .
11 I have painted male models before but they tend to be a lot more angular .
12 I beg you will write to me after you get this ’ ; ‘ Pray send a line … as I should like to know how you are going on , — as I do n't forget I have owed sundry dinners to your lithographic birds . ’
13 I have suffered cut fingers while being attacked when trying to see to different things in the tank .
14 I have studied various maps of the county and a number of documents without being able to pin-point the location of this manor , but will try to place it by the clues I have been able to deduce .
15 I have received personal replies from most of them , giving me assurances that that will be done .
16 Since writing about this in New Scientist , I have received numerous letters from readers asking how they can do the same thing in Britain and Europe .
17 I have received numerous letters from guitarists in recent months relating the problems they have encountered with guitar transmitters , so this month 's column deals with some of the more annoying , but hopefully curable , drawbacks of going wireless .
18 I have received numerous inquiries concerning the scheme at St Mary 's and requests for advice and guidance .
19 It is visible with the naked eye , and with × 12 I have suspected individual stars ; with × 20 there is undoubtedly some degree of resolution .
20 In my own investigations of many of these texts , I have noted additional examples .
21 ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned .
22 I have heard good things of the ARB air-locking diffs .
23 ‘ It is a site of which I have heard strange things since I came north , ’ said Creggan , ‘ where the eagles are in decline and their powers going .
24 I have heard vague rumours , comments , court gossip .
25 I have heard strong arguments from hon. Members on both sides of the House for continuing with the Bill , in the interests of Londoners and in the national interest .
26 I have heard dire rumours of the Helblaster volley gun . ’
27 So librarians are surprised , and a little hurt , when it is still suggested ( as I have heard educational technologists and others suggest at conferences ) that they are shy , retiring administrators , concerned more with order than with use .
28 I have done certain repairs over the years , but much is still original , and though the marquetry is lifting it remains a beauty .
29 I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further .
30 But , seeing as you wo n't tell me anything , I have to use other sources .
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