Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Now the red blood cells and so on have leaked out into the surrounding tissues .
2 I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 .
3 Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums .
4 When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ .
5 THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges .
6 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
7 Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges .
8 A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong .
9 These factors have stacked up against the amateur game : a preponderance of Tours to house players ; a huge glamour industry attached to the pro game that seduces the players ; parents wanting to push their sons into a life of perceived prestige and an automatic aspiration to be a pro among most players of ability .
10 Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened .
11 To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ .
12 Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle .
13 Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years .
14 erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began .
15 De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " .
16 Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 .
17 The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been .
18 Perhaps there are also genes that have broken out of the sperm/egg ‘ proper channels ’ altogether and pioneered a sideways route .
19 AIR wars have broken out on the vital transatlantic routes , with British Airways , Virgin Atlantic and two big American carriers all slashing their spring fares .
20 Violent clashes have broken out in the French Pyrenees between protestors opposed to a new road tunnel and some local people in the Aspe Valley .
21 As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something .
22 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
23 So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home .
24 I have pointed Out in an earlier essay , for example , that the distribution of certain fossils corresponds remarkably well with the old Austro-Hungarian Empire , though it is doubtful whether the Hapsburgs had much control over evolution .
25 But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time .
26 The last aircraft to leave RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire have flown out from the base .
27 Palatine now brew their own house lager ( ‘ Palatinate ’ ) and have joined up with a number of other smaller regional breweries to market independent products such as Dulverton Cider .
28 Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world .
29 As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name .
30 They have caught on to the right idea , by saying ,
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