Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 32 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 33 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 34 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 35 | I 've come here specailly to join Cromwell 's forces . |
| 36 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 37 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 38 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 39 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 40 | Mm mm , you 've done well then to get that one |
| 41 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 42 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 43 | ‘ You 've done very well to reach your present level . |
| 44 | No you 've done very well to survive as well you have had a |
| 45 | " You 've done very well to get the thing cleared up so quickly , " I said . |
| 46 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 47 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 48 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 49 | Here is where they put you when you 've got nowhere else to go . |
| 50 | Do n't , Debbie usually come in er , Sunday morning , but er what , they 've got somewhere else to go today |
| 51 | If we 've got much further to go , we 'd better fill up . ’ |
| 52 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 53 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 54 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
| 55 | ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night . |
| 56 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 57 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 58 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 59 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 60 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |