Example sentences of "anyone [Wh pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls .
2 He soon became employed as an informer for the police , spying on people and telling the police about anyone who had broken the law .
3 He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time .
4 She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that .
5 But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature …
6 Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify .
7 This will be familiar to anyone who has followed the debates over the last few years concerning the ordination of women within the Anglican Church .
8 I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford .
9 This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will .
10 ‘ There 's a theory that anyone who has witnessed the act depicted here is incurable , ’ said Lydia .
11 ANYONE WHO HAS LOST a finger in an accident will be painfully aware that the human species is incapable of regrowing lost appendages .
12 Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed .
13 Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength .
14 Anyone who has met a crosssection of ‘ new Britons ’ can identify people worthy of respect .
15 Anyone who has kept a dog or cat will know how accurate this rhythm can be .
16 Anyone who has completed the City and Guilds course , or who can confidently design their own garments with a charting device for instance , should have sufficient knowledge to be able to use the Professional program .
17 Anyone who has heard the dialect of the Bronx , New Orleans or Albuquerque will be able to affirm the failure of those techniques .
18 Yesterday they issued a new appeal for information from anyone who has seen the garment .
19 Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea .
20 As anyone who has survived an accident will tell you , the apparent security of cars is deceptive .
21 I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ?
22 Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes .
23 A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor .
24 These tummy exercises are particularly suitable for anyone who has had a baby or a hysterectomy .
25 Sharp teeth can cause terrible ulcers and anyone who has had a mouth ulcer himself will know what agony they can be .
26 Anyone who has had the privilege of handling the book , even though he may never possess it , will not dispute the wisdom of the £13,000 it has fetched .
27 Anyone who has had the courage to do that is ready for the next stage .
28 Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe .
29 Moreover , anyone who has acquired the power of co-ordinating correctly , can readjust the parts of his body to meet the requirements of almost any position , while always commanding adequate and correct movements of the respiratory apparatus .
30 I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface .
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