Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 2 | Over the years the first edition ( 1954 ) of this work has acquired something of the aura of a ‘ classic ’ text , and one or other of the editions is never likely to stray far from the student petrographer 's microscope . |
| 3 | Mr Lamb said : ‘ The council has put nothing in the budget to celebrate the anniversary yet Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle has just got £100,000 from the county council to mark its centenary . |
| 4 | In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists . |
| 5 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 6 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 7 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 8 | If his wife had put anything on the cake it would be long gone by now . |
| 9 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 10 | The fairness of the poll tax was that every adult had to contribute something to the upkeep of the neighbourhood instead of enjoying ( or destroying ) everything for free . |
| 11 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 12 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 13 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 14 | It is now common knowledge that there were consultants — were , because the Government have done something about the problem — who simply said , ’ I am a very important man . |
| 15 | ‘ Me old man 's got one from the market to burn but you can 'ave it , ’ said Rosa , who had already started with her sixth child . |
| 16 | , Lory production director and safety representative , said : ‘ The programme of training has reached everyone in the company . |
| 17 | The bank had organized everything concerning the various consultants , the share price , and the prospectus — a forty-page , glossy volume about the company 's structure , trading situation , and future plans . |
| 18 | Since the crux pitch is ( F6a ) , the climbers who bolted the route had assumed anyone on the route was good enough not to need bolts on the grade-4 pitches . |
| 19 | He thought it was maybe just er the driver had taken someone to the church was waiting to go back for them . |
| 20 | But the national press has published nothing about the ambiguity surrounding the Milwaukee Project . |
| 21 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 22 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 23 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 24 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 25 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 26 | It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before . |