Example sentences of "have [vb pp] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 2 | If you usually think of products like bread or beans as sources of carbohydrate rather than protein , it is because much of the diet literature has emphasized this aspect of these foods . |
| 3 | One of Switzerland 's finest private watchmakers has crafted this timepiece exclusively for the Danbury Mint . |
| 4 | He thinks Chamberlain has wrecked this country . |
| 5 | So far , no artist from that period has received this kind of attention from a major museum . |
| 6 | As far as I am aware this is the first time any Irish rider has received this sort of gift from Honda . ’ |
| 7 | The use which has received this appellation from Jespersen ( 1940 : 259 – 60 ) can be illustrated by sentences such as : ( 11 ) I am glad ( happy , delighted , pleased , proud , sorry , angry , ashamed , disappointed , surprised , astonished ) to see you here . |
| 8 | Game theory has developed this theory of rational choice a stage further by assuming that interacting agents have common knowledge of each other 's rationality . |
| 9 | One recent introduction , the DEST PC Scan , has broken this mould by providing very reasonable OCR for around £3,000 . |
| 10 | If Sir Alastair has broken this spell , as I most sincerely hope he has , the Chartered Institute may , after more than three quarters of a century ‘ provide a source of authoritative views on transport for communication to Government and the community ’ ; just as its founders intended . |
| 11 | The dam has broken this threat . |
| 12 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 13 | It is because the State has recognized this fact that the law has insisted that , for a legal life and personality , these groups and societies must get the authority of the State , and submit to its conditions . |
| 14 | Hong Kong 's stock market has soared this week after months in the doldrums on a belief among investors that the worst of the row with China has passed . |
| 15 | The museum has treated this material in thematic fashion , reserving a concluding gallery for ‘ The Green Room ’ series of paintings ( 1907 ) , that bitter cycle of love and jealousy which was intended to evoke the mood of a brothel in Berlin . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose a relative has checked this stuff ? ’ |
| 17 | Section 1(2) of the 1921 Act gave the Treasury power to direct the C. and A.G. to examine vouchers in more detail — the new Act has withdrawn this power . |
| 18 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 19 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 20 | Er there is a technical report that has examined this sort of information erm for the year nineteen eighty one nineteen eighty eighty one , specifically for this county . |
| 21 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |
| 22 | Sahlins has pressed this argument particularly hard , criticising what he calls ‘ vulgar sociology ’ which suggests ‘ a one-to-one parallel between the character of human biological propensities and the properties of human social systems ’ . |
| 23 | Stokoe ( 1980 ) has highlighted this type of one-sign sentence in ASL , where one can see the use of direction and movement to provide the full meaning . |
| 24 | Healy ( 1993 ) has criticized this study on the grounds that as those selected had previous histories of poor response to neuroleptics , this unfairly weighted the trial against chlorpromazine . |
| 25 | NAM 's Membership Secretary Terry Musson is in charge of this project and has undertaken this work largely single-handed since July . |
| 26 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 27 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 28 | Parliament has filled this gap by creating the offence of making off without payment in s.3 of the Theft Act 1978 . |
| 29 | Tony Arnold , Honorary Assistant Secretary with special responsibility for Northern Ireland , has filled this role since 1985 , when it was known as Northern Ireland Special Representative . |
| 30 | Such is its importance that the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis ( NCGIA ) in the USA , has placed this issue first in its list of research priorities ( NCGIA 1989 ) . |