Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 2 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 3 | I am happy there at the moment , and I want to repay Yorkshire for all the support they have given me over the years . ’ |
| 4 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 5 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 6 | Appreciative of the loyalty you have given us in the past , we are once again asking for your support . |
| 7 | The mechanical card operated locks have distinguished themselves over the years with proven durability and reliability as well as pure simplicity . |
| 8 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 9 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 10 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 11 | Therefore , virtually all methods of land evaluation have limited themselves to the physical factors of climate , relief and soil . |
| 12 | We went to him and said : ‘ We have hidden something for the Man under one of your boats . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 14 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 15 | Nowhere is this as clearly illustrated as in the struggles of black workers and in the way in which white workers have aligned themselves with the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 16 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 17 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 18 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 19 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 20 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 21 | I have placed you in the gravest danger . |
| 22 | ‘ I have to like them on the phone , ’ she says . |
| 23 | So far they have received nothing from the Government , little EC assistance and are running out of funds donated by individuals and industry . |
| 24 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 25 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 26 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 27 | Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board . |
| 28 | Several Q.T 's have joined us over the months and have greatly enjoyed getting to know the students and working with them . |
| 29 | Welcome to new readers who have joined us with the recent acquisitions of Argyll Services a London-based office and retail cleaning company , Wessex Hygiene Services who specialise in kitchen ventilation and convector cleaning in Bristol , Wiltshire and Somerset , and Rowland Compliance testing who take us into a new realm of contract servicing in circuit testing and maintenance of electrical appliances . |
| 30 | They have roughed it around the world ever since , at an age when most people would be content with a game of bowls at Eastbourne . |