Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike .
2 Recent research has attempted to show what the European public think about biotechnology , to identify correlations with resistance to other forms of technology , an d to attempt to quantify the support .
3 John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today .
4 Conference Group has chosen to call itself the West Belfast Economic Forum .
5 Faced with more than a thousand scientific papers , the author has chosen to give us the highlights : the measurement of the precise position of the source 3C273 by lunar occultation , which led to the discovery of the quasars ; the fine work on mapping the southern sky ; the detection of the presence of interstellar molecules ; and the search for pulsars .
6 She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed .
7 If she 'd hoped to unnerve her the way she did Letty then she was wrong .
8 And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it .
9 I would n't have considered giving you the job if my friend Lord Coleworthy had n't recommended you so highly .
10 Most people in the circumstances would have refused to believe what the evidence told them .
11 Any ‘ different ’ dream he had around that time might have served to give him the ‘ vehicle ’ he was seeking .
12 She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask .
13 She would have liked to deny me the gin and vermouth I was craving , but I would soon be a married woman and she could n't .
14 He was presented with a video recorder by his colleagues and friends who had gathered to wish him the very best on his retirement .
15 It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! )
16 ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to .
17 Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power .
18 So I 've got to ask you the question ?
19 We have to be fair , we 've got to give them the compensation .
20 I said , well I 've got to give you the funny finishes for when you come to your finals .
21 in order to get them , in order to get them to come , surely you 've got to sell them the idea that they 're going to get something useful out of it
22 you know , but , you , not only have you got to get the right colour and everything , you 've got to hold it the correct distance away from the metal
23 You 've got to know what the time
24 You 've got to tell them the truth ! ’
25 ‘ Jacqui , you 've got to tell me the truth .
26 You have n't got one y know , quite cheap just mats that they they ah I 've got forgotten what the word is for it they make the mouse improves the performance of the mouse see
27 Oh well I 've got to get her the .
28 You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing .
29 I erm got , check you 've got two days , you 've got give me the estimate , it 's got to be on because she 's expecting it to be done straight away on the computer and sent .
30 You 've got to feel what the tyres and chassis are doing all the time .
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