Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is huge and successful , but over the past decade it has undergone a radical change that has seen it transformed from a seemingly crusty , actuary-dominated organisation to one that is prominently business led , competitive and very high profile . |
| 2 | But it was apparent that having gone he did not entirely like it . |
| 3 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 4 | She looked at it and then shrugged and turned away , and the brief light that had illuminated him spluttered and died . |
| 5 | The clouds of water vapour that had surrounded it had condensed to form seas , but they were still hot . |
| 6 | INDIAN police have arrested more than 27,000 people to prevent them attending a banned Hindu nationalist rally , and the right-wing party that had organised it said yesterday it would sue the government for repression . |
| 7 | The true Gothic city , as Pugin indicates in his contrasting townscapes of 1440 and 1840 ( Fig. 30 ) , was a thing of the past , not only because its architecture had largely been destroyed , but even more because the spirit that had animated it had been wholly lost . |
| 8 | Then her mother 's head was heavy against Hari 's shoulder , the hands that had clasped her fell away and the tortured breathing had died away to an ominous silence . |
| 9 | The police van that had passed us drew up alongside . |
| 10 | Professor Rogers has shown the role of the wider populace when elections were contested in the widely enfranchised Westminster constituency in 1741 and 1749 and has suggested they foreshadowed the riots associated with John Wilkes . |
| 11 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 12 | he peered into the envelope as if hoping to find something worth having inside , then glanced swiftly through the letter and having read it flipped it and the envelope , with a gesture of disgust , to the ground . |
| 13 | He was called Howard Hughes and had lived what appeared to be a glamorous , exciting life . |
| 14 | But nature was cunning and had kept her trapped . |
| 15 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 16 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 17 | By the end of ‘ Great Expectations ’ I found that I had enjoyed the book and had found it thought provoking and interesting . |
| 18 | He had often experienced it , he assured us , but had thought it had died out with the Christian missionary influence of recent years . |
| 19 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |
| 20 | Nutty was jealous of Nails 's riding Switchback with Biddy all to himself every night but had to admit it had saved their chance for the competition . |
| 21 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 22 | But when having finished I switched it off again , I could see early daylight at the edges of the curtains . |