Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 2 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 3 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 4 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 5 | Such relative uniformity may also have given greater cohesion to the Angevin Empire , for its major towns from Rouen to La Rochelle and Bayonne shared the Etablissements . |
| 6 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 7 | ‘ Soon I shall have given enough souls to my Masters . |
| 8 | Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety , poverty , chronic illness , multiple losses and death . |
| 9 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 10 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 11 | Whilst Britain was genuinely concerned about honouring its debts there was a high mindedness about it which shut out any consideration of alternatives which , by reducing the obligation to maintain the value of sterling , would have given more scope for domestic planning . |
| 12 | We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people . |
| 13 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |
| 14 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 15 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 16 | ‘ Still , ’ he added , ‘ you 'll have heard that kind of compliment often enough , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 17 | They will have heard repeated discussions with other people previously , or comments from their parents that they are ‘ bad and naughty ’ . |
| 18 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 19 | Brightness 's destiny — so we were informed — was to be returned to prison where she will have to perform mindless tricks for the entertainment of rouble-paying humans . |
| 20 | The use of the same subjects both when shadowing was and was not involved may also have altered this result by accounting for any individual anomalies . |
| 21 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 22 | A full-scale attack on the evanescent substance would have diverted many resources from other problems equally as or more important , and Raistrick had no reason for making such upheaval . |
| 23 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 24 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 25 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 26 | The Dresden city government gave permission for the rallies to be held , insisting that refusal might have provoked violent demonstrations in the city , which had become a centre of radical right-wing activity since the end of the East German communist regime . |
| 27 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 29 | ‘ By using our income in this way , the taxpayer benefits because we do not have to borrow public money via the Treasury , ’ he said . |
| 30 | If she could buy some make-up after the X-ray expedition the discolouration would be hardly noticeable — only she 'd have to borrow some money from Penry , she realised , frowning . |