Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have said enough to show your lordships that the question before you is not whether you can reject this Bill but whether you ought to reject this Bill — a wholly different thing . |
| 2 | I have moved quickly to secure a ground-sharing scheme with the local comprehensive school . |
| 3 | In this chapter I have done more to highlight some of the problems in reaching a definition of God than to offer a solution of my own . |
| 4 | I 'd think that I have seen enough to say that cricket could never be the be-all-and-end-all of life for me . |
| 5 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 6 | I have learned never to do this again and the second concerns the use of a lacquer as a finish for fine furniture which I hope never to use again . |
| 7 | It is quite revolutionary that I have left home to attend college . |
| 8 | ‘ I have worked hard to build a body like this , ’ said the 26-year-old from Caerphilly in South Wales . |
| 9 | Sufferers from Chemical Dependency say " I have tried repeatedly to give up but I find that I can not . |
| 10 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 11 | Since the beginning of the year , I have continued both to meet and to correspond with a wide cross-section of the Northern Ireland business community . |
| 12 | Oh how I have longed sometimes to crouch with my head in my rucksack and give myself a squeeze of self-heating steak and kidney pudding , followed by a quick squeeze of hot custard and delicious spotted dick . |
| 13 | In desperation , on 5 August , Ho declared : ‘ I have come here to make peace . |
| 14 | ‘ I have come here to relate something to you , Father . ’ |
| 15 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 16 | I have told Pally to watch out . ’ |
| 17 | Ideally I would like a free house of my own but I have got nowhere to go . |
| 18 | ‘ You were quite right : I have got more to tell you . |
| 19 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 20 | The consortium du jour is the brand new SGML Open , a group of electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies which have banded together to push SGML ( Standard Generalised Markup Language ) as an international and commercial standard for document and data interchange . |
| 21 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 22 | I would just like to say , record our thanks to those who are retiring , and to welcome most warmly those who have come forward to serve and to propose the list , er , last , but certainly not least , our warmest thanks to Bronwyn and her colleagues in the voluntary services unit , for their ongoing and invaluable support to N C V O er , throughout the years . |
| 23 | But between the caution of a Brierley or a Spalvins and the reckless aggression of Bond , there is a middle group of antipodean entrepreneurs who have borrowed heavily to expand but for whom the expansion has so far paid off . |
| 24 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 25 | The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave . |
| 26 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 27 | Those who have worked hard to achieve the awards deserve nothing less . |
| 28 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 29 | If you have worked hard to develop a solid gigging career and no one is offering you a deal , the time may have come to approach record companies directly . |
| 30 | You have got just to find some place and stay there and get stuck in . |