Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 2 | The mistakes made in the manufacture of the mirror , which is as smooth as could be desired but the wrong shape , have stopped it from seeing many of the faint objects it should be looking at . |
| 3 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 4 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 5 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 6 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 7 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 8 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 9 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 10 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |
| 11 | Speaking from the governor 's mansion in Little Rock , Arkansas , local boy Bill , said : ‘ I accept tonight the responsibility you have given me to be the leader of this , the greatest country in human history . ’ |
| 12 | I am happy there at the moment , and I want to repay Yorkshire for all the support they have given me over the years . ’ |
| 13 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 14 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 15 | She would , she said , have given it to them , if she 'd known what it was . |
| 16 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 17 | Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given it to you . |
| 18 | Although such answers may not seem entirely convincing today , principally because of the insights which Darwin and Freud have given us into ourselves , it is nevertheless true that an approach to the problem based on evolution and psychoanalysis would yield analogous , if different , answers . |
| 19 | Make us more of a church body , Lord , using the gifts that you have given us in service for you and for one another , and learning form one another in humility . |
| 20 | Appreciative of the loyalty you have given us in the past , we are once again asking for your support . |
| 21 | The kidnappers have given us until October the eleventh to deliver the document and I have n't despaired of finding it before then . |
| 22 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 23 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
| 24 | He is leaving tomorrow , and I have parted them with my selfishness and my love . |
| 25 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 26 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 27 | Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying . |
| 28 | Still , I liked him , and I have heard him on television once or twice . |
| 29 | You know where I have heard it from , it 's from work , because er they do , they do lengths and stuff and |
| 30 | Once you have rehearsed , you will need to record a demo , especially as many venues wo n't consider you for a gig unless they have heard you on tape . |