Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you think has happened to Basil ? ’ asked Dorian slowly . |
| 2 | ‘ What d' you think has happened to Hugh ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | Compared with 1990 our bank interest received has reduced from £450,000 a year to approximately £150,000 . ’ |
| 4 | When boozing has led to brawling , some hellraising stars , like Willis , have gone on the wagon . |
| 5 | Magwitch reveals himself as Pip 's benefactor and says every penny he has earned has gone to Pip . |
| 6 | The latest figures show that the number of cases of serious backpain reported has risen by 40% over the past 5 years . |
| 7 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |
| 8 | Since 1984 Dagenham has had to cope with double the number of product changes at Halewood . |
| 9 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 10 | Storage Technology Corp has had to turn to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for helical scan subassemblies for planned new tape drives . |
| 11 | As they sway and raise their arms , he sees thirty pairs of large breasts and he imagines the same quantity of round thighs rolling and separating under the cassocks which he has had sent from Raleigh . |
| 12 | In school she has had to contend with discussions about ‘ Pakis ’ in the staff room . |
| 13 | In making manifest to a waiting public the final accomplishment of that ambitious design , Sheriff Irvine Smith has had to contend with vicissitudes of health to which he refers in his Introduction and from which all his many friends are rejoiced to see him recovered . |
| 14 | Now , shut out of the heavyweight division since Tyson 's fall from grace , mired in lawsuits and under investigation by several state boxing commissions , the taxman and the FBI , Don King has had to lay off staff and is struggling to keep his empire from crumbling . |
| 15 | The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " . |
| 16 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |
| 17 | BR has had to rely on staff working excessive overtime to carry out maintenance and repair work . |
| 18 | What about , what she has had to say about John Major ? |
| 19 | One of the problems of opposing what deconstruction has had to say about language is that , according to deconstructionists like Miller and de Man , to do so is to oppose language itself . |
| 20 | Canada , which dug the knife particularly deep into its defence budget , has had to withdraw from Somalia , and from Cyprus too . |
| 21 | This terrorist activity brought home to Americans what the United Kingdom and , more recently , the city of London has had to tolerate for years . |
| 22 | It has had to accommodate with changes brought about by television and radio : television and radio deliver news instantly and usually with sound and/or visual images . |
| 23 | I o hear Karajan in the opera-house the mountain has had to go to Mahomet . |
| 24 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 25 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 26 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |
| 27 | Mr Abe , who was to succeed Mr Takeshita as prime minister before the Recruit scandal intervened , is not a healthy man ; he has had to return to hospital . |
| 28 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 29 | But it is as though she has had to start from square one . |
| 30 | The freeze on spirits duty acknowledges , if it does not yet rectify , the wholly unjust domestic tax regime against which the Scotch whisky industry has had to struggle for years . |