Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've come and knocked for me cos you could 've come in and played computer and everything . |
| 2 | our estimate for price elasticity is four and one to nought point eight minus one is one point eight , notice though that its ratio has jumped considerably or has doubled and the dummy variable itself is very significant the T ratio ten the coefficient on that dummy variable tells us the effect of the war on textile consumption , right so on average textile consumption rose by point two er see what the units of measurement are we do n't actually have units of er ah so we 'll |
| 3 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 4 | ‘ He has to go back and sort out the transfer situation , which is very messy . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
| 6 | But he still has to go back and work in the afternoon . |
| 7 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 8 | Like that 's hard work for Maureen cos she has to go down and help her . |
| 9 | When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice . |
| 10 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 11 | Michael Fullan ( 1988 ) has pointed out that to change practice in classrooms involves changing beliefs and attitudes as well as changing teaching materials and approaches — though such ‘ changes in attitudes , belief and understanding tended to follow rather than precede changes in behaviour . ’ |
| 12 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |
| 13 | We have many hobbies ( life has filled up and fanned out ) , but our main extra-curricular interest , naturally , is women 's bodies . |
| 14 | The old heart or some other bit of my body has given out and fouled the system and I 've gone . |
| 15 | He has consulted widely and trained , lectured and organised major conferences and seminars both in the UK and overseas . |
| 16 | ‘ The person shown on television having an exchange of words with David Campese has come forward and given his account of the incident . |
| 17 | Things are not all bad and what goes around has come around and bowled me right over . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm surprised the match referee has come out and said he was right to give the free-kick to Saunders because , in his opinion , it was dangerous play by Elliott . |
| 19 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 20 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 21 | He asks , ‘ Has our civilisation by virtue of the inhumanity it has carried out and condoned … forfeited its claims to that indispensable luxury which we call literature ? ’ ( pp. 72–73 ) . |
| 22 | Oh Norah from Compton Acres has rung up and says why spoil the arboretum lake ? |
| 23 | … has grown up and gone away , |
| 24 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 25 | He has shot up and seized his chance with both hands . |
| 26 | If they have finished the investigation no one has written back and told me . ’ |
| 27 | After about 20 minutes of use the average colour monitor has warmed up and stabilised and , at this point , Adobe suggest you adjust the colour balance so that it matches a progressive colour bar that you get from your printer . |
| 28 | In the past , Kingfisher has argued cogently that tipping the bargaining balance towards the electrical retailer and away from the manufacturers would benefit consumers . |
| 29 | On the whole , adds Mr De Benedetti , Olivetti has suffered rather than benefited from politically institutionalised bribery . |
| 30 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |