Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 3 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 4 | The question to be faced after the Robbins deliberations was whether the solutions they had proposed for the CATs constituted a model for future action . |
| 5 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 6 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 7 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 8 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 9 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 10 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 12 | Mum 's anger and frustration was based , not entirely on the fact of the girl being a Gentile , but on the great expectations she had anticipated for the boy . |
| 13 | The amount you receive depends on two factors : the number of years you have worked for the organisation plus the fraction of final pay on which the scheme is based , typically 1/60th . |
| 14 | Staff let us know how many days they have worked for the month . |
| 15 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 16 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 18 | ‘ None of the things you have done for a start . ’ |
| 19 | Figures we 've obtained for the first three months of this year show astonishing variations in cautioning rates across Kent . |
| 20 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 21 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid it 's a good deal classier than the tumble-down old Pullmans I 've found for the rest of you . ’ |
| 23 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 24 | For an industrial waste producer , a college , hospital etc , the extent to which the duty applies will vary according to the arrangements it has made for the disposal of the waste ( see box ) . |
| 25 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 26 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
| 27 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 29 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 30 | The motto formed part of the coat of arms he had designed for the establishment — five poker dice surmounted by an imperial crown . |