Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shopkeeper whose premises have been smashed open by ramraiders twice in three weeks says his local council have stopped him installing protective security shutters . |
| 2 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 3 | I know I should put this girl out of my mind , and I have stopped myself getting in touch with her again . |
| 4 | I know I should put this girl out of my mind , and I have stopped myself getting in touch with her again . |
| 5 | We have to see him die . ’ |
| 6 | People are so trusting and hopeful , they only have to see you to imagine they 're cured . |
| 7 | Deane almost scored with a delightful back heel flick type effort ( you have to see it to know what I mean ) . |
| 8 | For the reasons we have given we think their contractual entitlement corresponds with the indemnity basis of taxation set out in Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) . |
| 9 | Fellow Tablers I thank you most sincerely for the honour and opportunity you have given me to become your sixtieth National President . |
| 10 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 11 | ‘ If you study the answers I have given I think you will find that they are very clear , ’ Di Leonardo returned . |
| 12 | Hidden hostilities have given you pause for thought . |
| 13 | Whenever we have given you advance notice of any such planned interruptions , we guarantee to restore your supply within the period notified to you . |
| 14 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 15 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 16 | As for that limerick of hers , I have heard her tell worse . |
| 17 | I have heard her speak of him . ’ |
| 18 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 19 | It was one of the most powerful , positive and visionary speeches I have heard her give in eleven years . |
| 20 | We have heard her described as : ‘ a diminutive figure with small features and a slight spare dress ; she was little and light , noiseless and shy ’ . |
| 21 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 22 | And sometimes I have heard her crying for her mother — you know what that means . ’ |
| 23 | Unlike Crilly , she speaks in a clear and Anglicised accent and , more than once , I have heard her criticised by her countrymen for not taking pride in her own . |
| 24 | In the English Lake District I have heard them mimicking the curlew , a bird not found in the Cambridge area . |
| 25 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 26 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I have heard him criticising his players as not good enough and trying to rationalise their situation to dampen expectations back home . |
| 28 | Nothing else explains the conviction we have that we have heard him speak to us . |
| 29 | You have heard him speak , |
| 30 | ‘ I have heard him say something similar . |