Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes : ‘ The faithful transcription of the sound patterns of speech by a fully developed alphabet has freed writing from some of the ambiguities of oral language . |
| 2 | Draft clause 12 was enacted as section 15 ( which I have reproduced above ) and section 16 of the Act of 1968 and has got rid of some defects and difficulties which had arisen from section 32 of the Act of 1916 and from judicial interpretations of that section . |
| 3 | Its molluscan foot has become divided into some ninety long grasping tentacles with which it grapples with its prey . |
| 4 | It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper . |
| 5 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 6 | In traditional societies where prolonged breastfeeding has been the custom , the advantages of lengthy spacing are widely recognized though , as in Kenya , the tradition has begun to fade among some peoples along with the advance of modernization . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard from a friend this morning — she 'd getting hitched to some chap in Northamptonshire who 's due to inherit his uncle 's title . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 9 | Fortunately you have a chancre which has appeared soon , and this means that the system has an opportunity to right itself as far as it can , having got rid of some of the trouble . |
| 10 | In particular , the symbol for gimmel would have become associated with some name or sound equivalent to that associated with the Roman ‘ G ’ ; the mem symbol and the Roman ‘ M ’ would also have acquired a common associate . |
| 11 | You know what you should have done while you was up there this time you should have took asked for some samples . |
| 12 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 13 | To be told she would have to get rid of some of the little she had was not what she had expected — or wanted to hear . |
| 14 | Blood may have continued to ooze for some time after death , though less so here than from a dependent part . |
| 15 | Lawrence accepts that Ford entered car diesel design later than it might have liked compared with some of the opposition , notably Peugeot-Citroen ( PSA ) , which enjoyed a head start from the 1930s . |
| 16 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 17 | The performances are certainly very competent , but this is n't quite the vintage Kantorov we 've come to expect from some of his later Denon recordings ; a degree of blandness gives the playing a slightly ‘ automatic ’ quality . |
| 18 | Once you 've got rid of some of it , why not take another bit , and then at the end of the day let's close the whole damn thing and save everybody a lot of money . |
| 19 | And that 's something which you have n't like got to do a lot of recording for You have n't got test conditions you 've got to think of some questions and photocopy it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Ian , who was responsible for dealing with diocesan loans to incumbents for cars , had had to go into some detail on these points . |
| 22 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 23 | It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer . |
| 24 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 25 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 26 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 27 | The evictions marked the end of the squatters ' movement , which at its most successful had provided housing for some 10,000 people . |
| 28 | There had been a low haze hiding most of the surrounding hills , the loch had seemed suspended in some floating mirage , broken only by the oars rattling , and the water that slopped in the bottom of the boat . |
| 29 | I remembered all kinds of girls whom Harvey had wanted to marry at some time or other . |
| 30 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |