Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She describes the construction , siting and use of the Malaise , light and pitfall traps with which she has caught a total of more than 300 species of Lepidoptera , more then 90 species of hoverflies , 46 species of bees , 40 of wasps , and more than 500 species of ichneumonids , eight of which were previously unknown in |
| 2 | ( She also does all the lovely flower arrangements for which she has won an award . ) |
| 3 | This illustrates another rare story : the seer Polyeidos shut in the tomb with Minos 's dead child Glaukos , and reviving him by means of a leaf with which he has seen a snake revive its mate which he had killed . |
| 4 | In this fable for our computer age , a computer freak Joe Jenkins becomes obsessed by a computer game in which he has to save a goldfish . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend convey to the Governor of Hong Kong my congratulations and those of the House on the skilful and successful way in which he has conducted the affairs of Hong Kong in difficult circumstances for the past five years ? |
| 6 | Furthermore , duty is payable on the gross value of the debtors and ignores the possibility of any bad debts and the purchaser will be paying stamp duty on an asset for which he has received no benefit . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the hospitals in respect of which he has received an expression of interest in opting out or establishing a national health service trust . |
| 8 | Mr McLeish said : ‘ Alex Salmond must now reveal the extent to which he has made the SNP hostage to this Tory Government . |
| 9 | He knows that he has deliberately raised unnecessary alarm among many thousands of pensioners by the way in which he has presented the matter . |
| 10 | Theatre for Oxford has developed out of his theatre tours abroad , for which he has directed The Importance of Being Ernest , in which he also plays Dr Chasuble , The Glass Menagerie , The Promise , Shaw 's Village Wooing , Arthur Miller 's Elegy for a Lady and Pinter 's The Caretaker . |
| 11 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 12 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 13 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 14 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |
| 15 | The typical case is one in which a factual statement points out that a situation is one of the kind in which an ethical statement asserts that a certain obligation holds , that is , one in which it has expressed the wish that people should act in a certain way or meet the disfavour of others . |
| 16 | During ejaculation , the sperm is deposited into the vagina , after which it has to negotiate the cervix and the uterus , from where it enters the Fallopian tube . |
| 17 | Which is it — massive increases in normal basic income tax , or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them ? |
| 18 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 19 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 20 | With recent parts in On The Up , starring Dennis Waterman , and the Secret Agent , with David Suchet , Miss Mollison , 36 , tells me she has bought the option on a book with a view to producing a TV film from it . |
| 21 | The ex-wife is ringing up over a son in whom she has shown no interest . |
| 22 | Mind you he has become a bit of an opinionated arsehole recently … more like Jonathan King , or Nina Myskow — y'know being deliberately contentious to get people to write in . |
| 23 | Details were revealed as Mr Bush made his tax return public yesterday , something he has done every year since he became vice president in 1981 . |
| 24 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 25 | Him he has appointed the heir of all things . |
| 26 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 27 | God has not yet come back to buy up his possessions ( the Christians ) , for whom he has paid the down-payment of the Spirit ( Eph. 1:14 ) ; and it is in the context of our future inheritance beyond death that Paul speaks of the Spirit as our ‘ earnest ’ in 2 Corinthians 5:5 . |
| 28 | It 's exactly as he conceived it , except that instead of twisting it he has knocked the top slightly cock-eyed , like the cow with the crumpled horn . |
| 29 | No , he he he he he has to break a code , you know , like |