Example sentences of "to have [verb] [det] [num] " in BNC.

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1 By then Wyllie , the sole selector , hopes to have given all 30 players a game .
2 Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director , comments ‘ We are delighted to have received these three awards . ’
3 Some captured males with orchid pollinia are believed to have flown some 45–50 km in seeking the orchids .
4 ANC leaders including its president Nelson Mandela had previously made similar allegations against the government , refusing to continue with constitutional negotiations until it acted to halt the violence [ see p. 38178 ] , which was reported to have claimed some 2,000 lives over 10 months to the end of June .
5 Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months .
6 Lit also claims to have won another four per cent stake in the station from private company , Spectrum Radio Investments .
7 Jose Miguel had been his usual model of self-effacing but steely efficiency and he seemed to have conjured another two birdies from the course without anyone noticing , although he too had dropped one shot .
8 Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world .
9 When the car was delivered it was found to have done some 550 miles .
10 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
11 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
12 Tie Rack opened nine stores and closed four in the first half , and plans to have opened another 14 by the year-end , of which at least five will be in the UK .
13 He was just a very extraordinary man and I was very fortunate to have had those twelve years .
14 Reports from rebel-held territory that some 1,000 civilians had been killed by government troops were strongly denied ; however the number of dead in fighting was thought to have reached several hundred .
15 You got the impression he would have liked to have brought all six volumes with him if he could .
16 Nor does it need any familiarity with the object ; that is , it does not need to have experienced those two views in association beforehand .
17 You ought to have took that three grand
18 In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering .
19 The volcanic eruptions are thought to have finished some 1.7 million years ago , and the volcanoes are considered extinct .
20 BRENTFORD 'S run of six successive wins came to an end before their best crowd of the season and West Ham were unlucky not to have taken all three points .
21 And , incredibly , remains the only bowler in history to have taken all ten wickets in an innings in the Caribbean .
22 In simultaneous legislative elections the RCD was officially declared to have taken all 141 seats in the National Assembly .
23 I 've begun to think more and more like this — it is terribly cruel of fate to have put these twenty years between us .
24 Now the couple , of Little Stoke , Avon , will have their marriage blessed before the same guests in November , when she hopes to have lost another two stone .
25 In addition to making large payments to the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate , Hiroyasu Watanabe , former president of the Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin trucking company , who was due to stand trial later in the year , was alleged to have paid some 70,000 million yen or more to around 130 members of the Diet .
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