Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
2 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
3 | ‘ The morality of the one has determined the morality of the other and the disestablishment of the Church could save the monarchy because it would avoid embarrassment . ’ |
4 | The nought 's got a dot in the middle ! |
5 | Every one has enriched the pool of material available to the local historian . |
6 | Never a one has had a report of a missing child . ’ |
7 | No one had heard the jackals howling , but the dogs , alerted to something , had barked and barked . |
8 | The president waited before going on , to confirm that no one had missed the report . |
9 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
10 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
11 | No one had tampered with it , no one had viewed the body within . |
12 | ‘ And no one had collected the keys during the day , not even the churchwardens ? ’ |
13 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
14 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
15 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
16 | No one had told the Poms they were meant to go quietly . |
17 | No one had put a name to the woman before . |
18 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
19 | I sometimes wonder if the reason I struggled with university mathematics was that no one had taken the trouble to express the mysteries of analysis in comic strip form . |
20 | I do now recall you saying no one had used the name in years . ’ |
21 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
22 | When I was on the parapet of the convent wall I saw fresh horse dung lying near the main gate ; it was not from our mounts , but the lady prioress said no one had approached the convent . ’ |
23 | No one had driven the paint away on their tyres . |
24 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
25 | said no one 's taken the money in |
26 | This is a relatively small volcano , and so easily accessible that it has even been suggested that a hotel should be built beneath it , to make an especially attractive night spot for jaded Guatemalans , but so far no one has risked the capital . |
27 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
28 | No one has devised a research method , short of market trials , that can compare different media — and even such tests have their pitfalls . |
29 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
30 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |