Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the chapters of this part of the book I have sought to provide a rationale for such an approach . |
| 2 | The reasons I have cited make a largely self interested case for not fundholding . |
| 3 | The work of each woman I have selected unites a sophisticated understanding of the area in which she is working — and these are always varied , for instance sculpture , metalwork , painting , photography , with a very personal , often critical viewpoint , specific to the woman herself . |
| 4 | I wish I had a pound for every time I have denied holding a meeting with the T & g . |
| 5 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 6 | So , as I enjoy the opportunity to create a modest tremor in the bourgeois breast myself , I have decided to present a few recipes that might be described as ‘ frighteners ’ : recipes that are totally delicious but fringed with menace . |
| 7 | I have decided to adopt a suggestion which was put to my Department in the course of the consultation that unions should be required to employ a mailing house or some other external agency to distribute and store voting papers . |
| 8 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 9 | One of the most imaginative that I have seen uses a series of bowls and a conventional fountain spray . |
| 10 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 11 | ‘ If all I have to do to get a girl with your looks to spend a night with me is bust a leg ’ — he stopped for breath — ‘ soon as I 'm out of here I 'm busting the other . ’ |
| 12 | Slaughtermen in the UK need to be licensed ( although the requirements are often easily met and there are no statutory national standards ) and those that I have observed take a grim pride in doing the job with efficiency . |
| 13 | In this chapter I have attempted to draw a distinction between the targets we set and our ability to hit them . |
| 14 | In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated . |
| 15 | I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years . |
| 16 | From the first texts I published , I have attempted to systematize a deconstructive critique precisely against the authority of meaning , as the transcendental signified or as telos , in other words , history determined in the last analysis as the history of meaning , history in its logocentric , metaphysical , idealist … representation . |
| 17 | When I attempt to run LOTUS 1-2-3 Release 3.0 from windows a message tells me that I have attempted to run a protected-mode application in 386 enhanced and to change to WIN /S or WIN /R . |
| 18 | In a way they had no choice — but I have chosen to stay a virgin and that is important to me . ’ |
| 19 | I mean I have helped to run a radio telescope . |
| 20 | All the personal accounts that I have read convey a sense of isolation , an absence of professional support , and the sheer despair generated by this experience . |
| 21 | First , that the conditions I have described constituted a substantial interference with the residents ' enjoyment of their property up to June 1990 ; second , that enough residents were affected to constitute a public nuisance if it were not for his other defences . |
| 22 | In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe . |
| 23 | ‘ I have agreed to exchange a copy of my Work with Mr. Gould , for his publications — and have by me 13 Nos of his Birds of Europe etc . |
| 24 | Miss Hopkins , a former model , says : ‘ I have tried to create a line of very smart and very wearable clothes that will have wide appeal . ’ |
| 25 | Putting together some of the memories and matching them with photographs where possible , I have tried to give a flavour of life in Bishop 's Castle from the turn of the century to the 1920s . |
| 26 | I have tried to convey a pale memory of our meeting , but further than that I can not go . |
| 27 | I have tried to present a society where aggressive behaviour as we understand it — however loosely defined — is not much in evidence . |
| 28 | All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game . |
| 29 | I am sorry to say I have such a headache at this very moment because the thin winter light has faded outside the window and I have had to light a candle in order to get all this down in good time . |
| 30 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |