Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ? |
| 2 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 3 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 4 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 5 | But while that social ease can work in his favour , he has had to temper it by becoming an earnest , moderate , church-going swot . |
| 6 | The US , even more than Britain , has had to propel itself into international roles in order to create the illusion of being a united nation-state . |
| 7 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 8 | There is certainly a difficulty in understanding how Israel can be expected to have known anything from primeval times , when it did not exist , but there is no doubt that we have here a parallelism of increasing precision . |
| 9 | Every society needs its flawed heroes , and we appear to have saddled ourselves with rock singers and movie stars . |
| 10 | Although the ceremonies contained in the Directory of Public Worship remained the official liturgy of the English church throughout the period from 1645 to the Restoration , few English parishes appear to have welcomed them with any enthusiasm , and all over the country clergymen continued to conduct services based substantially on the old Book of Common Prayer . |
| 11 | Between these extremes comes the chronic depression found to have affected one in three mothers with pre-school age children in a London study of working-class families . |
| 12 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 13 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 14 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 15 | In other words sex can be great fun , you do n't need to have to do it in order to just have babies . |
| 16 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 17 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 18 | Up to now the routes I 'd been climbing had hidden themselves in gullies or grooves . |
| 19 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 20 | Well it 's like erm , the store instructors are supposed have trained them on those specific things , |
| 21 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 22 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 23 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 24 | As time passed he compared notes , revised his dosages and kept an eye on the testing programme , but the thought that it was wrong does not appear to have troubled him for long . |
| 25 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 26 | Unlike history , the ‘ new ’ geography would appear to have rid itself of imperialist associations . |
| 27 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 28 | I hope to have learnt something by doing this painting to help me to get the next one that much better . |
| 29 | It is this : saying that the character of ‘ mental representations ’ ( beliefs and imaginings , for example ) can be understood only in terms of a history of activity , or that it is the subject 's conception of himself as active in relation to the world which gives these ‘ representations ’ their ‘ content ’ or ‘ semantics ’ ( I hope to have shown something like this ) is simply irrelevant to the mind-body problem . |
| 30 | And the tension seemed to have affected her in other ways , too . |