Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I may speak as one who has heard all the centenary lectures and restraining myself from being invidious , I will merely say : George , it was an admirable centenary lecture , and the huge spinning top of words , despite its complexity , kept the patterns clear and sharp and arguable . |
| 2 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 3 | But Chelsea have had promising kids before , so who has made all the difference ? |
| 4 | Anyone who has had such a ceiling sag under the strain will sympathise with this week 's debate in the Church of England synod . |
| 5 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |
| 6 | The house was built by a local architect called Cecil , an old man with a raspy white beard , who 'd lost half an arm to a wayward chainsaw . |
| 7 | It 's an important achievement for volunteers who 've flown all the way to Oxfordshire from America to be part of this Earthwatch project . |
| 8 | I have a particular affection for Bristol and the West country , I 'd like you know that , those of you who 've come all the way to London from the West and I so I was very happy to have this evening and be able with er an accompanist and musical director , to provide entertainment that would raise money . |
| 9 | Every week a detachment of men who had completed all the selection processes , interviews and tests would go off to the 4ème Règiment Étranger at Castelnaudary near Toulouse to start their basic training . |
| 10 | He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way . |
| 11 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 12 | She had almost lost interest in the man but felt obsessed with the woman who had made such an impression in such a short time . |
| 13 | A great deal of time and thought had gone into the varied and colourful array of costumes worn by the contestants , and into their entertainingly apposite choice of titles ; everybody , however , agreed that ‘ Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally ’ , who had travelled all the way from Norfolk , were the worthy winners . |
| 14 | Course teachers were three old friends of the British Medau Society — Gisela Klotzer ( better known as Bedu , Director of Movement at the College ) , Katarina ( ‘ Tinka ’ ) Hutz-Medau ( daughter of Hinrich and Senta ) who had travelled all the way from South Africa , and Irene Schwartz , who teaches Medau at Freiburg University . |
| 15 | Was she trying to clear her conscience , or was it Margaret 's final act of revenge on Leah who had grabbed all the glory ? |
| 16 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 17 | Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society . |
| 18 | State Premier Carmen Lawrence , who had resisted such a move since taking office at the beginning of 1990 [ see p. 37250 ] , finally conceded that an inquiry similar to the Fitzgerald inquiry was necessary to restore public confidence in the electoral system . |
| 19 | Blaise Cendrars , the vagabond poet who had shared many a bottle with Modigliani , wrote these mysterious lines as preface : |
| 20 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 21 | This is convenient for the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society , who have dubbed 1991 the Year of the Maze . |
| 22 | But it is not just the popular press who have argued such a case . |
| 23 | You know he obviously sees rich peasants as you know a more er unattractive class of peasant , I mean he sees the poor peasants as the real er vanguard of the revolution , the people who have done all the work and erm sacrificed er security at an early stage |
| 24 | Among the writers who have advocated such a view are the great American anthropologist Boas and some of his pupils , and also , for somewhat different reasons , the British anthropologist Evans-Pritchard . |
| 25 | At Ting-Kok migrants such as the grey-rumped sandpiper , who have travelled all the way from Siberia , feed on several species of crabs after their long journey . |
| 26 | Through extensive interviews , it focuses on the lives of 15 British men and women , aged between 70 and 90 , who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice . |
| 27 | There have of course been those who have deplored such a connection . |
| 28 | Now it 's my very great pleasure to I think probably introduce the youngest member of our audience here today and a very good supporter of Save The Children erm I am sitting down soon beside Elise who 's travelled all the way from Norwich . |
| 29 | Dad 'll come home tonight and say who 's eaten all the custard creams then , he loves custard creams |
| 30 | The chap who 's won all the money on the pools last week . |