Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hodkinson 's defeat was only his second loss in 24 contests and he has since vowed to regain his title . |
| 2 | That was presented , last July , to yet another secretary , Lord Young , who has since refused to publish it . |
| 3 | This account of how a sturdy and friendly young American wins the heart of the irascible and hostile Earl of Dorincourt , the grandfather who has hitherto refused to see him , acquired a largely undeserved reputation for sentimentality . |
| 4 | A Separate staffs , households , budgets and agendas are what the princess has long wanted to make her a royal in her own right . |
| 5 | Still , Anixter has only begun to exploit its potential . |
| 6 | On the contrary , everything has only served to strengthen it , ’ Travis countered heavily . |
| 7 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 8 | Jim , who lives and delivers in Kilkeel , Co Down , has only failed to make his round once — and that was in a snowstorm in 1977 when his delivery van had to be towed out of a drift . |
| 9 | Indeed , that was why so many of his remarks have echoed in my mind over the years , because experience has merely served to confirm their aptness . |
| 10 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 11 | Britain has apparently undertaken to review its own aid to Vietnam once it becomes clear that forced repatriation is working smoothly , and that Hanoi keeps to its side of the bargain , not to punish boat people who are deported from Hong Kong . |
| 12 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 13 | Partly to counter these charges the EC has constantly tried to develop its relations with other countries and this applies also to cultural relations . |
| 14 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 15 | For example , loud clothing will create the disturbing feeling among the Japanese businessmen that the foreigner has perhaps failed to take them as seriously as he might have , by failing to observe that the common practice in dress in Japan is some degree of formality . |
| 16 | From the bench Bateman had said : ‘ I here beg leave , not merely in my own name but in the name of the whole bench , to require from Mr Ashton the name of the individual on whose statements he has thus presumed to impugn our magisterial conduct . ’ |
| 17 | Fred has meanwhile offered to sell his own car to Brian for £500 , giving Brian seven days to make up his mind . |
| 18 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 19 | He asked me that same question at the conference but , like Pontius Pilate , has not stayed to report my answer . |
| 20 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 21 | The fatal addiction of the human race to trouble is something which , even at 50 , has not ceased to amaze me . ’ |
| 22 | So far he has not tried to blame anyone else . |
| 23 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 24 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 25 | Mr Gorbachev has not bothered to hide his disapproval of the way Mr Ceausescu and his family have ruled Romania . |
| 26 | Now that the Labour party has finally decided to publish its phoney budget , it should think again and drop those damaging and vindictive proposals . |
| 27 | Perhaps he has just waited to see what was emerging and then stepped in quickly to take the initiative and carry forward the proposal which he has sensed is about to emerge . |
| 28 | We have not chosen to think these thoughts , our mind has just started to think them without us being aware of what we are thinking . |
| 29 | She has dismantled and unstitched my slatted blind single-clawed , and has just arrived to see what she can do here . |
| 30 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |