Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 2 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 3 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 4 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 5 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 6 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 7 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 8 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 9 | Since then , they estimate that he has seen something in the region of 70 doctors . |
| 10 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 12 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 13 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 14 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 15 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 16 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 17 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 18 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 19 | Store has got it in the can |
| 20 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |
| 21 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 22 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 23 | , Lory production director and safety representative , said : ‘ The programme of training has reached everyone in the company . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 25 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 26 | Moving is development in IBM — and to bring that full circle , the depth of well developed IBM people has demonstrated itself in the company 's extraordinary ability to get so many thousand people into new jobs , even in new places . |
| 27 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 28 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 29 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 30 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |