Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large scale farming has ripped out hedges and woods to make way for arable crops , leaving Harwell as an oasis in the middle of the fields . |
| 2 | Support for this sequence of events has come from animal models of atherosclerosis and studies using cell-culture techniques , and as Born ( 1983 ) has pointed out caution is necessary in translating these findings to the human situation . |
| 3 | He has stashed up reserves of arms , and can probably get more . |
| 4 | The seller has given up goods in exchange for an increase in his bank deposit . |
| 5 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 6 | Durance sighed , the long deep sigh of a man who has given up hope . |
| 7 | PATRICK SWAYZE has shelled out £5,000 to bring his favourite car to Britain . |
| 8 | The player has to smash up opponents . |
| 9 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 10 | The child knows the spelling , but has mixed up b and d . |
| 11 | Auspex Systems Inc has picked up distributors in Europe and the Pacific Rim including Storage Data Systems International in France , RacTech GmbH in Germany and Edata in Scandinavia . |
| 12 | Sybase Inc has picked up Francois Stieger to run its Gain Technology operation in Europe . |
| 13 | The UK 's Ampersand Systems Ltd , Bristol , is re-launching itself as the Open Systems Centre , and as has picked up IBM 's RS/6000 to market . |
| 14 | OpenVision Inc , the unusual nine-month-old Pleasanton , California start-up with $25m in funding and a $12m revenue stream , which launched its unusual systems management concept at the end of last month ( CI No 2,158 ) , has picked up friends in high places . |
| 15 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 16 | Visix Software Inc has picked up UniPress Software Inc as a distributor , which will sell Looking Glass Professional as its desktop manager of choice . |
| 17 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
| 18 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe Systems Inc 's TransScript software for distribution : the software is designed to enable Unix programs to print to PostScript output devices . |
| 19 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe 's TransScript software for distribution : the software allows Unix programs to print to Postscript devices . |
| 20 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 21 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 22 | The Glasgow shop ( 1,600 sq ft , 4 full time , 2 part time ) is managed by Brownie Gray , who , my rep friend surmises , has picked up trade which formerly went to Holmes and Grants . |
| 23 | Transarc Corp , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , where IBM is a minority investor , has picked up Mary Patterson as its vice president , development . |
| 24 | Corollary Inc has picked up Truger Technologies Inc in Canada and PC Distributing Inc out of Illinois to distribute its communications and multiprocessing lines . |
| 25 | DELL HAS COME UP TRUMPS AGAIN , THIS TIME WITH A NOTEBOOK COMPUTER THAT 'S CHOC-A-BLOC WITH USEFUL FEATURES . |
| 26 | She is full of praise for the invaluable public library system which has come up trumps in most of her researches . |
| 27 | She has come on Lisa has n't she ? |
| 28 | Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition . |
| 29 | Is there any reason why that should not apply equally to the words ‘ has carried on business ? ’ |
| 30 | If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) . |