Example sentences of "['s] [noun] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His early involvement in the English edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom 's Cabin had helped to finance a series of innovatory publications . |
| 2 | A DESCENDANT of one of Napoleon 's guards has offered to replace a lock of the emperor 's hair destroyed by an IRA bomb at Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | Canada 's provinces have agreed to appoint a three-man commission to investigate the efficiency , safety , and management of the country 's blood-supply system . |
| 4 | Dolly 's limbs lay strewn about the carpet but Dolly 's assailant had gone to take a nap and slept . |
| 5 | Members of the Redworth Women 's Institute have agreed to send a cheque for £15 to the County Durham Kostroma appeal . |
| 6 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 7 | Added to these problems , their voices are too squeaky and high-pitched for the telephone operator to hear even after the Doctor 's crew have managed to lift a telephone receiver from its rest . |
| 8 | For women , education in the men 's system has meant learning a lot about men in male ways and a lot about learning to be the women men have determined we should be . |
| 9 | It was the first time that Rohmer 's Unit had managed to keep a Returner in captivity for analysis and experimentation . |
| 10 | The Mayor 's office has agreed to fund a pilot study into a plan to use 100 giant industrial fans to suck polluted air from the city . |
| 11 | The Umpires ' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb . |
| 12 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |