Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade . |
| 2 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 3 | Why does the system in Northern Ireland remain isolated with no connection to any other system , with all the technical and economic disadvantages which that entails and which the hon. Member for Antrim , East has referred to on several occasions ? |
| 4 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 5 | I mean just out of Heathrow and Gatwick I think traffic has dropped by about twenty per cent over the erm past two weeks , but that 's now beginning to pick up again . |
| 6 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 7 | Er Chairman I I really have to say I do n't I do n't really agree with the assertion that the policy is is essentially more restrictive than than er P P G seven will indicate and I would endorse what er Patrick Earle has said in in that regard . |
| 8 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 9 | According to a game survey recently performed by a group at the Istituto di Zoologia of the University of Rome , Italy 's population of fully wild , feral dogs has exploded to above 80 000 and is fuelled by a pool of perhaps ten times as many stray and free-ranging animals . |
| 10 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 11 | C. complains that he 's not as helpful or responsive as some of the other people he has to deal with in other factories . |
| 12 | PROJECT engineer has retired from after 41 years service . |
| 13 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 14 | Ron wants to raise money for disabled children , whom he has worked with for many years . |
| 15 | This is something everybody has to think about at some time and , if you have any special wishes , it is better to let others know . |
| 16 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 17 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 18 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 19 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 20 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 21 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 22 | I think it was his grandfather 's name that he 'd er , he 'd acquired at at that at that time . |
| 23 | The reasons advanced for this failure in the " statement " of 1904 were " the difficulties which female organisers have had to contend with in other trades — apathy and lack of support " . |
| 24 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 25 | Curtis said that growth was more marked in Germany than the UK , with the number of lines having grown to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 1992 from 20,000 in 1991 . |
| 26 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 27 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 28 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 29 | Then , if you have that necessary possession for any writer , luck , your subconscious will provide you with developments you never could have thought of in cold blood . |
| 30 | Erm not really , I mean er the salary one we could have got into in greater depth when we were cut |