Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [noun prp] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 2 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 3 | Carrie 's parents and their youngest son Danny had been forced to find alternative accommodation and they ended up in one of the most dilapidated tenement blocks in Bermondsey . |
| 4 | Redcar MP Mo Mowlam returned on Thursday night from a train trip to London to find her white Ford Sierra had been stolen from Darlington railway station . |
| 5 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 6 | In a further disclosure on April 18 Astra Holdings , the British ammunition and fireworks group , confirmed that its Belgian subsidiary PRB had been contracted to produce a very large gun propellant for an Iraqi customer . |
| 7 | To her considerable surprise Joanna had been entirely on her side . |
| 8 | Within her first year Diana had been approached by 150 charities . |
| 9 | Earlier his flatmate Mark Hodges had been interviewed at the police station about alleged deception . |
| 10 | In his younger days Noel had been influenced by F. D. Maurice [ q.v. ] , who had said ‘ I strongly believe that Christianity is the foundation of all socialism , and that socialism is the necessary result of all true Christianity . ’ |
| 11 | His younger brother Henry had been crowned king in London on 5 August by the archbishop of York , amid a flurry of promises of liberties and grants of lands designed to stabilize his position . |
| 12 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |
| 13 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 14 | Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen . |
| 15 | His encyclical Mystici Corporis had been published on 29 June 1943 ; in other words , only three months before Divino Afflante Spiritu . |
| 16 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |