Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 2 | The bees ' behaviour has developed phylogenetically and of course may now be regarded as a more or less necessary causal consequence of their finding food . |
| 3 | The service has developed significantly and is at an important stage whereby several major clients are considering adopting the Rentokil approach to facilities management . |
| 4 | As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 5 | He has stopped there and is deciding whether or not to come over the ridge . |
| 6 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 8 | Now , 40 years on , this structure has fallen apart and the cry is for a free market economy . |
| 9 | The coefficients are generally similar to those in ( 2.2 ) , although the standard error has fallen slightly and the impact effect from a given change in wealth is some 12% smaller . |
| 10 | AMP said that over the past 10 years , measured in terms of new annual premiums , Pearl 's market position has fallen sharply and its share has declined consistently . |
| 11 | He has consulted widely and trained , lectured and organised major conferences and seminars both in the UK and overseas . |
| 12 | Optimism over the re-election prospects of the Conservative party , widespread among stockbrokers and fund managers only a couple of weeks ago , has ebbed away and there is now more active consideration of other possible outcomes . |
| 13 | Barth has referred again and again to this discovery in his interviews and articles , and there is no doubt that the existence of such works as The Ocean of Story has helped to form his resistance to the ‘ modernist notion that plot is an anachronistic element in contemporary fiction ’ . |
| 14 | However th th the fit of that training work for ministers and others within the church has sat less and less easily with the Board 's commission to advise the church , and that 's our social interests commission , to advise the church erm on matters of social , ethical or moral importance within its remit . |
| 15 | The sprint classic at Dunmore , now worth £10,000 to the winner , has attracted more and more entries from the south . |
| 16 | This fish has now been imported for over two years and when first appeared its price was in the second-mortgage league , but now has dropped considerably and can be picked up for between £30–£50 . |
| 17 | The price has dropped considerably and you can now pick up a 2″ specimen for £40 . |
| 18 | The family has occupied less and less of this house since the World Wars , every generation a little less — Christabel 's room was in the east wing that 's been closed since 1918 , except for use as some kind of a glory-hole . |
| 19 | ‘ The person shown on television having an exchange of words with David Campese has come forward and given his account of the incident . |
| 20 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 21 | T'awd lass has come 'ome and she 's stoppin' 'ome " He directed a look of flat finality at the drover . |
| 22 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 23 | Since he was claimed for £18,000 , this gelding , formerly owned by the Queen , has won twice and been second twice on the flat when trained by Roland O'Sullivan . |
| 24 | People must realise that the Ryder Cup has grown enormously and that so many more things must be considered . |
| 25 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 26 | Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so . |
| 27 | Not just because their popularity has grown naturally and without cartloads of bullshit , but because they 've wheedled their way out of Northern Ireland with a snarling guitar sound that benefits from an invigorating spread of influences — from techno to rap and ambient house to reggae . |
| 28 | The ‘ take-away ’ industry has grown suddenly and dramatically , as has the consumption of vast quantities of junk foods — you only have to look at all those supermarket trolleys piled high with packets of crisps and cans of fizzy drink . |
| 29 | This has grown rapidly and is now 2–3mm in diameter . |
| 30 | The sense of involvement has grown considerably and what had previously been a relatively isolated job has now become increasingly rich . |