Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sent out a memo to all staff reminding them of the procedure for sickness . |
| 2 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |
| 3 | I have built up a rock structure to the water height in the middle of the tank . |
| 4 | ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’ |
| 5 | I have written off the cost on a straight line basis in the accounts and the inspector has disallowed this for tax purposes . |
| 6 | I only think of myself as a housewife when I have to fill up a form . |
| 7 | All those big salt pebble things I have to fill up every week in the ? |
| 8 | I believe I have calmed down a bit but there are still times when I will get booked . ’ |
| 9 | I think I have narrowed down the possible causes to be either hogweed or nettles and I am in the process of removing these . |
| 10 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 11 | I have to space out the attempts . |
| 12 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |
| 13 | I have to go back a stage , I have n't actually explained what these four to you , on this page you 've got four boxes . |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | And I have averaged out the changes over all the various sections of the A sixty one . |
| 16 | The only wildlife problem has been created by the jackdaws trying to nest in the front-room chimney , so I have pushed up a chimney brush to discourage them . |
| 17 | In view of the interest shown in the last issue of the Journal , No. 11 , on the Liverpool Overhead Railway tickets , I have dug out a few more interesting examples for the 12th issue . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to pick up a helper . |
| 19 | That is , under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty . |
| 20 | I have given up a lot of my independence . ’ |
| 21 | I have chopped up the Info in such a way as to make it Faxable on 2 sheets So I could do that too , at a pinch . |
| 22 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 23 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 24 | Then suddenly I get all cold , and I have to jump around a bit to get warm . |
| 25 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 26 | I have left out the biggest spender of the lot , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , who , every time he gets to his feet in the House , commits the Labour party to further increased spending on the social services . |
| 27 | I can remember stuff they thought too petty for Trivial Pursuit and then somedays I have to look up the instructions on my bootlaces . |
| 28 | We do n't seem to have made much progress on this front so I have drawn up a set of forms myself , one for books , one for videos and one for software . |
| 29 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 30 | I have opened up a dealership for North Humberside and can now try out as many machines as I like . |