Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 2 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 3 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 4 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |
| 5 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 6 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 7 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 8 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 9 | Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment . |
| 10 | ‘ But one of you has to make a start , Amy . |
| 11 | Each of you has taken an oath to return a true verdict according to the evidence , but , of course , you have a duty not only as individuals , but collectively . |
| 12 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 13 | The director of a bank in Ljubljana has said ( Politika , 8 October 1987 ) : ‘ It is clear that none of us has become a director without the approval of the Party 's cadres section . |
| 14 | That 's why he 's in Bradford right now and I 'm here in Sardinia — because each of us has to make a living . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I have written to him , and the firm 's solicitor has written to him , but neither of us has got an answer . |
| 16 | Elsewhere one of us has offered an opinion on that question , together with appropriate supporting evidence . |
| 17 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 18 | ‘ If a plane 's delayed , it 's because one of us has nicked the wheel , shit like that . |
| 19 | Determined to change the conversation , she opened her mouth to make a remark about the surrounding countryside , but he said suddenly , ‘ It 's too much to hope that a beautiful girl like you has had no experience . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 21 | This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive . |
| 22 | With it has sprung a variety of names and product descriptions with some of the more common being ‘ germicidal detergent ’ ; ‘ detergent sanitiser ’ ; ‘ detergent sterilant ’ and the simple ‘ sterilant ’ These titles and any combination thereof all mean one thing namely a sanitiser . |
| 23 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 24 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 25 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 26 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ continued Gloria between swallows of coffee , ‘ the lady what polishes the cars for him has got a sister what does cleaning at Stowbridge Tech . ’ |
| 28 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 29 | The petition was never delivered but the muttering about it has persuaded the king to promise a consultative assembly once all this is over . |