Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 2 | The lease for Southwell City Football Club , forty five pounds , our waste paper income , about five hundred pounds in the calendar year , er V A T refund about three thousand pounds , and grants I 've put down five thousand pound income for the year . |
| 3 | Colin Montgomerie finished one ahead of Olazabal after a last round of 70 and thinks he has benefited much from his four weeks in the United States . |
| 4 | I mean you say ‘ I 'm only a housewife ’ , and then some man comes home and thinks you 've done fuck-all all day . |
| 5 | She was busy stuffing our cupboards , the fridge and the freezer with the food and supplies she had brought from the town . |
| 6 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 7 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 8 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 9 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 10 | She kisses us goodnight and says she 's had fun . |
| 11 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 12 | He is now scared to use outside loos and says he has lost work with bosses who wo n't let him go to find other facilities . |
| 13 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | But the group saw its gross margin rise from 49 p.c. to almost 52 p.c. and says it has seen a ‘ healthy improvement ’ in new year trading . |
| 16 | Morpho supplies fingerprint identification systems worldwide and says it has converted more than 12m fingerprint records . |
| 17 | SunSoft has also lined up several large US distributors namely Ingram Micro Inc , Merisel Inc , Tech Data Corp , Access Graphics Inc and Gates F/A Distribution Inc to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 18 | SunSoft has also lined up several large American distributors namely Ingram Micro , Merisel , Tech Data , Access Graphics and Gates F/A to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 19 | Ask Computer Systems Inc has expanded its Manman/X business information system to include support for the Oracle database and says it has signed a worldwide pact with Oracle Systems Corp to become an Oracle Business Alliance Partner : the two will continue to offer their respective products directly to mutual customers , and maintain separate but co-ordinated support staffs . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 21 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |
| 22 | Just as the inhabitants of the barrios here defend their pathetic shanties to the last , defying the well-meaning efforts of the authorities to relocate them , so the poor in intellect cling to whatever feeble idea they have been able to fashion out of the odds and ends they have foraged . |
| 23 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 24 | It appeared that in order to cut time and costs it had become customary to close the doors after the ferries were sailing . |
| 25 | Let us give thanks for the progress made in scientific research , for the luxuries and comforts it has given us , for the assistance in curing disease , with storing information and with improving communications . |
| 26 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |
| 27 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 28 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 29 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 30 | She used to sing at parties and school discos when she was ten years old , and wishes she 'd made a record . |