Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My kids have got a paddock , where they play . |
| 2 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 3 | My tears have washed a lot of the make-up from that eye and there 's a black streak running down my cheek . |
| 4 | So far my enquiries have drawn a blank , your tracks are so well covered . |
| 5 | I would imagine that the er parties on my left have had a chance to read and consider these erm statements already . |
| 6 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 7 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 8 | Since those heady days the bar and its clientele have undergone a transformation . |
| 9 | In a project funded by the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust ( CLIC ) , Beverley and her team have developed a procedure for cloning the cell factories that produce antibodies which are proving effective as magic bullets in identifying and destroying brain tumours . |
| 10 | I gather you gentlemen have written a book ‘ Microprocessor Fundamentals ’ . |
| 11 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |
| 12 | The two central characters are middle-class sisters whose lives have reached a crisis . |
| 13 | Sixty angry pickers , whose families have earned a living down the centuries , vowed to defend the 30-acre site . |
| 14 | His roles have meant a lot of work in ‘ behind the scenes matters ’ , looking after the systems that underpin the Company 's computer facilities . |
| 15 | ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’ |
| 16 | His sales have dipped a bit since Jig , and all the Grafton reissues have rather confused people , but this is new and first-class . |
| 17 | He and his staff have created a fund of goodwill for the industry which employs them , precisely because they stick to examining and explaining facts , and do n't flog the party line , and never indulge in propaganda — well , hardly ever . |
| 18 | Let me yet again express the view that Lord Cullen and his staff have produced a document of world-class significance — in , given the circumstances , a remarkably short time . |
| 19 | Bouton and his collaborators have conducted a series of experiments ( for reviews see Bouton ( 1988 , 1990 ) ) using the same stimuli and general procedures as those employed by Bouton and Swarzentruber ( 1986 ) but differing in that no explicit training was given . |
| 20 | Reason and his colleagues have developed a questionnaire which investigates the frequency of a number of behaviours among normal drivers . |
| 21 | Secondly , the Home Secretary and his colleagues have found a way in which to deal with the problem swiftly and , I believe , to remove the uppermost element . |
| 22 | In line with various studies of jejunal tissue , our data have shown a predominance of gd + TCR intraepithelial lymphocytes within the expanded population of CD3 + T lymphoctyes distributed throughout surface and crypt epithelium of rectal mucosa . |
| 23 | ‘ How your mob have murdered a teacher , and thrashed the Duke 's servants nearly to death . |
| 24 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , you 're just peeved your lot have elected a woman leader . |
| 26 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |